The Dialogue
Besides being a writer, I’m also an artist and a musician. I make wheel-thrown pottery and claysculptures, and I’ve played the flute for over forty years, belonging to three different…
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Hit the Ground Running
There's a claim out there that if a work of fiction doesn't grab the reader on the first page, it never will. The whole "slow burn" approach to writing, which…
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When Bad Things Happen to Nice Characters
My short story “The Last Bus Stop” is about a conversation on a bus between two people who had been strangers. One of them is a young commuter; the other,…
