Writing can be a lonely business. For most of us to focus on our work, we need to be in a place of quiet, calm and solitude. This is wonderful for wading through your book draft or crafting beautiful verse….
Coming Home: Is Your Genre Right for You?
Two weeks ago I moved to a new house. It was an uprooting, unsettling experience in many ways. I felt homesick for my old place where I’d been for so many years. And it made me think–once the dust had…
New Artwork from Sean McCann
Maybe by Sean McCann Sean McCann is a writer from upstate New York very much interested and passionate about concepts, poetry and language. He finds it interesting how people often package contradictory words to convey messages, and that is what…
Rejection: Coping with Disappointment
Artwork: Maybe by Sean McCann Last week, I had a particularly horrific interview for a PhD. By the time I’d recovered from the shock of being annihilated by a seemingly friendly academic panel and bought close to my weight in…
For Writers: Keeping the End in Sight
In case I haven’t mentioned it—and I’m pretty sure I have—I recently finished the first draft of my novel. Until then, I’d found writing easy, lovely, pleasant. Then I spent eighteen months embroiled in a war with my own head…
Literary Fads
First, there was Twilight, the sparkly vampire phenomenon that seemed to come from nowhere. Now there’s Fifty Shades of Grey, the “erotic” novel that has the nation gripped. Once in a while, these literary fads appear. Which leaves writers like…