Category: Contract with the Reader
From Telling to Showing
Writers of fiction are consistently told, and rightfully so, to “show, don’t tell.” In other words, a reader wants to see the story unspool, not…
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Between Two Poets
My most recent reading of Waterborne was at Butler University on 4 December. The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program held its first…
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Waterborne is Launched
My second novel, Waterborne: Chronicle of the Clan of Noah, is now fully released and in the hands of readers. As a writer, this is…
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Novel Edits
Writers need editors. Most of us do not excel at editing our own work. The rest of us outright stink at it. Our biases are…
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When Writing Upstages Story
Upstage is a theater term. This is when one actor over-acts and pulls the attention of the audience to himself——regardless of the intended focus of…
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