Writing feedback hurts. The other day, literally within a few hours of me doing the “I am amazing at this” dance after I wrote what I considered a killer short story submission, I got an e-mail. Seeing this editor’s name in my InBox brought on a mixture of excitement and fear as it usually does….
Let me be clear, writing is so incredibly hard. However, I breathe the written word. It is my life force, my prana, my life purpose, my escape, my clarity. It is also my most complicated, vicious, taxing, and painful relationship. Nothing comes even close to the challenge a devotion to writing inflicts upon me at…
It’s true, the Mona Lisa has a twin who lives in Spain. The Prado in Madrid has been home to what many considered a knock-off for years. Until it came down for restoration a few years ago, no one even knew that there was scenery behind a layer of black paint. Now, it turns out…
I’ve spent the last few days scouting novel locations and building out the beats for a larger project about the Sibylline. One of the big holes was an ancient, mystical location in Ukraine. Scouting story locations is one of the most fun parts of writing. It inevitably leads me down rabbit hole after rabbit hole…