“Aspiring writer” is always a lot more fun than “published writer.” You get to dream about how readers will respond to your work without this pesky thing called “reality” getting in the way, pretend you’re some undiscovered genius who just needs the right opportunity for your work to catch on fire like a fucking phoenix …
I wrote this a few months ago on a dare (my friends were entering a contest for fun. Yep, writing peer pressure at its finest). I should add that I don’t normally write in this genre. Birthplace was an experiment, but I don’t know much about the werewolf/shifter/paranormal genre myself and can really offer just my unique …
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One of the earliest lessons I’ve learned as a writer was to “trust the reader.” In the beginning, I didn’t know what this meant. How do you trust a reader? Isn’t the point of you writing is to guide your reader through an experience? Well, yes, the keyword here being guide. What I’ve learned this means …
I wanted to take a quick break to share a link to a dear friend’s short story, Her Little Feather, which was written as part of a prompt we did a couple of months back (the prompt being mention of an architect, a fork, and the words, “Who needs friends?”). I’ll share the other prompts in a …
I may have mentioned this before, but my dear friend Julie Midnight’s paranormal erotica novella is finally out for sale on Amazon.com. You can see my review of it here: The atmosphere and writing is well done, the pacing is excellent. You don’t see this level of the writing craft very often. Get your copy …
