It was the second week of Clarion. My first story written the week before had mixed success. The classmates were too nice and the instructor told me plain it wasn’t good enough. I started with humor hoping it would be a softball. Not so much. Licking my wounds, I decided Read more
Every year the Clarion Foundation hosts a write-a-thon to raise money to keep the Clarion workshop going. I attended Clarion in 2013 and it was a life-changing experience I’d like to help more people have. Write-a-thon participants set their own goals for the six weeks of the Clarion workshop. (It Read more
When I saw a tweet that Cat Rambo was opening submissions for an anthology of cautionary tales titled “If This Goes On,” well, I wanted in BAD. It first appears in my writing journal on November 28, 2017: “Send something (Flying Cars?) to “If This Goes On.” My first instinct Read more
So, I had an informal poll on my facebook page: What would my Curious Fictions subscribers like for their exclusive subscriber-only content? I offered to post unpublished flash fiction, works in progress, or a serialized novel. Serialized Novel won out BIG TIME. This leaves me, however, with the question of Read more
I’m about to do something I vowed I would never do: Publish erotica under my legal name. It terrifies me. Now some background. I was pretty young, like ten, when I had this great dream about a handsome prince who was being abused and tortured by his wicked queen mother, Read more
If you follow me, you’ve probably noticed my Rejectometer. My sister Grace proposed it as a way to get me to shut up about how awful and unpublished I was. “I’ll buy you a present if you reach 100 rejection letters.” So I started counting rejections, and soon enough, I Read more
There was a time in my life when exercise was called “having fun.” I remember abruptly when it ended. My twin sister and I were chasing each other, laughing, lost in some game, and then we ran to our older sister to see what she was doing. “Gross!” she said. Read more