While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ~ Tiffany Madison You press SAVE as you glance at the sunset, just visible outside your window through flickering palm leaves. Finally! The End. … Read More
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
Just 500 words? 1000? Piece of cake! Or is it? Writing meaningful blog posts involves more than opening a vein and bleeding onto the page.* I know. Since 2008, I’ve been blogging about food, cooking, and culinary history. And I’ve learned a few things. Creating blog posts resembles following a … Read More
Remember the good old days when novels were serialized in newspapers and magazines? No? That was probably before your time. Serialization was popular in the nineteenth century but fell out of fashion after the 1930s. Charles Dickens published most of his novels as installments in periodicals before issuing them in … Read More