This’ll sound crazy obvious, but I promise there’s a point here: short stories tend to take place in a short amount of time. Duh. It might all take place in a coffee shop in an hour or over a day or a weekend. You might even write the … Read More
As a writer of ghost stories, I should explain that I ventured down a deep rabbit hole recently in pursuit of the best ghost stories of the Victorian/Edwardian era: tales written by the master, medievalist scholar M. R. James. He is revered in the United Kingdom as the gold … Read More
I’ve been practicing yoga for about eight years now and, at 53, have settled into the awareness that some days I can do all the poses to some degree, while on other days, my shoulder won’t allow full extension or a cramp in my foot will pull me out of … Read More
Some years ago, I took an online mystery-writing class. The one helpful takeaway for me was what I’ll call the Wheel of Tension, which moves the plot along. This is not limited to mystery writing; it works for all fiction and non-fiction. The Wheel of Tension is this: A situation … Read More