Poet Reporter
A different kind of reporting, through the eyes of a poet.
World-Building
If you’ve been reading me for a while you know I wrote my first who-dunnit in Fifth Grade. “Midnight… Murder?” was destined to be a hit. And as soon as I find it--likely in an attic somewhere--it still might be.
But that first story wasn’t all sunshine and roses. (Murder rarely is.) When my babysitter (today she would be considered my first beta reader) read the story and immediately knew who the killer was, I realized I needed to do a rewrite…
Motivation
Writers get into their characters’ headspaces. We know their backstory. We wrote it. We know why these characters act the way they do. We know how they think. So we get in there and write accordingly…
Target Practice
I assume everyone has a calling. Some have more than one. It doesn’t have to be something we’re good at. And it doesn’t have to be flashy.
When your dream is your own, it’s worth going after. No one else is going to see it the way that you do and they’re not going to do it for you…
