As part of the Edinburgh version of Whisper Walk from the "AFOOT" series, I give you one of the monologues/short stories I have c...

Let’s talk about the holy word every artist needs to learn to wield like a bedazzled machete: NO. This post is for every tender, brilliant,...

Friends, I humbly share with you all: I made a thing.  Well. I RE-made a thing.  And what an honor it is.    Inspired by the giants of Alan ...

Aspiring writer, we need to talk. Not The Talk. Not the birds and bees—the one where I lovingly talk in all caps into your face about the w...

June is the month when books begin to breathe again. After the frantic ambitions of spring and before the scorched lethargy of high summer, ...

Been on the train for  Writing Tips Part 1   and Part 2 ?    Well, next stop: TECHNIQUE TOWN! Population: 1 writer desperately trying not t...

In January, I was convinced—for the twenty-sixth time in two years—that I was absolutely, for real, not-a-joke-this-time, quitting show busi...

Continued from Writing Tips: Part One.    7. Be Open to What’s Around You Look around you. Behold both the natural and man-made world. Obser...