You’ve heard this before: First impressions are everything. I subscribe to this theory a lot. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and while that’s true, you can certainly judge a book decently by its first few sentences. In grade school, we used to do this thing where we’d have to read […]

Recently an eagle-eyed reader brought something to my attention – I write about characters with anxiety a lot. Sometimes it’s more clear, like Adam from BMS or Molly from GBM, but sometimes it’s more subtle. You could make strong arguments that the characters of Megan, Aaron, and even Nicole show symptoms of anxiety-based disorders. Given […]

You know what I love? My life being annoying and making me have to apologize for stuff. So, in no particular order, I’m sorry that there was no blog post last week, I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to release anything lately, and I’m sorry this week’s topic will possibly run a little short. […]

In WordPress blog posts, before you add a title, there’s just a gray placeholder that says ‘title,’ and honestly, that was as good a name as any for this. I love titles. Titles for stories are the first thing that can tell you if a story is going to be good or bad. I lucked […]

Last week I talked about how my stories are more similar to plays in terms of how they’re set up and how characters talk, but I realized that also gives the impression that I’m something of a director. I guess a lot of story-writers look like the creators of their own work, and I thought […]