The Puzzle of Drabbling

The Puzzle of Drabbling

The first questions I’m asked in my new interview with Five Directions Press are phrased this way: Your new story collection, Soul to Soul: Tiny Stories of Hope and Resilience, includes 100 stories, and each of them is 100 words long. This kind of precision, I...
No Need for Perfection In First Drafts, or Life

No Need for Perfection In First Drafts, or Life

There’s this thing about writing that I think also applies to a lot of things in life: striving for perfection can be stressful and self-defeating, and it can actually prevent any progress. Case in point: the first draft (of a short story, an essay, a...
New Website Takes Flight

New Website Takes Flight

Welcome to my new website and blog! I sadly lost years of blog posts when my old site went down, but when one door closes… For my first post on the new blog, I’d like to thank The Free Website Guys, the team who helped me build this site—and give anyone reading this...