Would you prefer the volcano or the altar?

Coffee Mate is my new best friend. They’ve made their peppermint mocha flavor a year-round thing instead of a seasonal thing. Which really doesn’t have anything to do with writing except the ritual of it all. When I worked in an office (way back when a...

Taking Inpsiration Where We Find It

My brain is not in stream of consciousness mode today. So instead of a rambling blog post, or even worse, subjecting you to the rewrite of my first 250 words of Uriel’s Fall, I have a link. Check it out. Be inspired. Allow yourself to dream.Where do you find...

Voices, voices everywhere

I’m a bad writer. I’ve done something that everyone cautions against, or rather, I haven’t been doing something that everyone advocates. When I was growing up I was a voracious reader. I’d devour everything I could get my hands on…as long...

A Writing Place

I go through these periods where all I want is quiet. External, digital, all of it. I just want to shut it off and isolate myself in some manner of sensory deprevation. No cats. No friends. No grounds crew cutting the lawn. No people painting the house next door and...

Cue the Paparazzi

Why is it easier for some people to share their deepest, darkest secrets, fears, hopes, pains, whatever, in a public forum (Facebook, Twitter, etc), than it is for them to discuss them face to face with the people they’re closest to?And on the other side of the...