Have you ever heard people talk about the “bones of a story?” Maybe as in, “The story had great bones, but I didn’t like…” (Why does discussion always focus on critique? Let’s save that for a later post.) Maybe you can tell what that means from the context. The bones are essentially the frame of …
I have endometriosis. Or so I’m told. I guess we’ll have absolute certainty on that when I have surgery later this summer, since surgery is the only official way to diagnosis it. But it’s gotten bad enough for the lesions to show up on CT scans and MRIs, so my doc says that’s pretty definitive. …
Here’s a fun fact: my new book, Freely Written Vol. 1 went from concept to print in about two weeks. Yep, two weeks! While quick turn around is one of the benefits of self-publishing, that was a little crazy even for me. Why the quick release? And why did the print edition come out nearly …
By late summer 2020, I needed a fun and silly creative project. There were two ideas I’d been kicking around for quite a while: writing a gamebook and writing a book about two friends named after my grandmothers, Audrey and Esther. Putting those ideas together seemed like a perfect solution. I had no idea how …
Another mass shooting. Cue the same old arguments. I’m exhausted. We all are. Nothing will change unless we address our broken society. But how do we do that when we can’t even agree on what parts of our society are broken? Or can we? I do not know how to stop the continual mass shootings …
