Lessons from a Master — Taken from his book: Consider This: Moments in my Writing Life After Which Everything was Different Part two ESTABLISHING YOUR AUTHORITY If you were my student, I’d ask you to consider the following methods for building authority within a story. Make the reader believe you. Make the incredible seem inevitable. — From Consider This AUTHORITY The…

I was just doing my job. — I woke up, sat straight up, eyes wide, and a big inhale…eahhhh…exhale, to kick off the coming panic attack. For sixteen years I had the same fucking dead kid, dying in four different variations. Dying, over and over and over…and over. It was a terrifying version of Groundhog Day, but…

But, probably not. You will just make it so — PLEASED BE ADVISED: From Today until the End of Days I may use offensive humor to deal with my mental illnesses. It keeps me grounded. It keeps it real, but at arms length. To me, it’s what helps. …

So, I Sit Down and Try to Write All About Myself and All I can think is who give a $&@! about an Oxford comma. So, I’ll Start at the beginning. — Please allow me to introduce myself… I’m told I’m not like the others. I was born on the cusp of November. I’ll never be royal, it’s just not in my blood. I didn’t know it but Sometimes you’re born with it. They say it’s genetic, they say I can’t help it. This story comes later. As…

The words have quit rolling — My words have left the fucking building. I can no longer conjure up the sentences, arrange the letters is any order. I want so fucking badly to write, I have so much to say. I have been dealing with trauma, death, love, and anxiety, still the stories do not fucking…

From the comment section — Ukraine I had lunch the other day with a friend from college years. She came to the US from Ukraine to go to school. She started college speaking very little English. She taught herself English watching “those silly little reality shows” She is now a Nurse Practitioner. She is 6'1", all…

It’s okay to disagree — Do you think I will shame you because you disagree with me? Because I will not. I may respond back, but never shame. You are, I’m guessing an adult, because you write on this platform, correct? I don’t know, I am just assuming, even though this is an international platform…

You are a parasite. — and I don’t care. How do I keep falling for your little tricks, your little jabs, and your over-the-top threats? I know you don’t care what your words and actions do to me. I know this, I know you don’t care about me. Last time it was right after the…

This is all I am going to say on Roe V. Wade. — I could write a doctoral thesis on this one thing, actually no, it would only fill a couple of pages. Maybe typed in neon. Green. Sans serif. Black background. I don’t want to. Here is where I say my peace. Currently reading A CASE OF NEED, published under Jeffery Hudson…