Two New Drabbles Are Out in the World

Two New Drabbles Are Out in the World

If you’ve been enjoying the 100-word stories (“drabbles”) in my latest book, Soul to Soul: Tiny Stories of Hope and Resilience, you’ll probably enjoy my two new publications. “Figure Worship,” a surprising (and perhaps amusing) take...
New Work is On the Way

New Work is On the Way

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on the blog, but never fear! Life sometimes takes me away from my creative work, but when things calm down, I can re-focus. I do have a fun piece coming out this month in a new anthology of drabbles titled, of all...
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...