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Subscribe nowIt all started last November at 2nd and Charles, a bookstore in Hagerstown, Maryland. It was there, that my friend Al Clingan handed me a…
Read MoreIn her essay “Furor Scribendi” Octavia Butler wrote: “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit…
Read MoreI finished my undergrad on the campus of Indiana University/Purdue University, Kokomo. I took Sociological Theory from Dr. Earl Wysong who was a member of…
Read MoreMarilynne Robinson wrote in the New York Times Book Review on 24 Sept. 2017: “Writing should always be exploratory. There shouldn’t be the assumption that…
Read MoreTone. Voice. Color. Style. These are four of the many terms that we toss about when attempting to describe the qualities of a piece of…
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