Documenting my way to novelhood

I think we can all agree that a catchphrase is, at best (and this is probably stretching it), funny one time. Most of them are never funny…

My last Drafty post got me thinking about some of the structures that have been characters in my life, particularly a rental house that…

One of the characters in my novel lives in an apartment building named The Eldridge. The Eldridge was built in 1928, beginning its life as…

Mr. S., for some reason you popped into my head today. I haven’t seen you in a long time. It was at my younger brother’s high school…

Many of you have written about your day jobs in your Medium posts, and to be honest, it’s kind of fun knowing what you do outside of…

As I write my novel, I think a lot about what I like to read. What makes a story engaging? Why do I stay up half the night reading one book…