Dear Netflix, We need to talk. I want you to know that I still love you, but we need to talk. You see, I thought you were different. I thought you knew me. The times we’ve shared; all those movies we’ve watched and those shows that we’ve binged on. You got so good at knowing …
Month: January 2015
I recently met Kindra Sowder, founding executive for Burning Willow Press and a talented writer, through an online writing group. She’s set up her own press recently and currently has an open call for submissions for an anthology or horror pieces that closes April 2015. Her first published novel recently came out and the link …
I’ve been writing for awhile, and I’m getting paid to write. I’m not where I want to be yet but I’m definitely on the way there. And its going to be awesome. One of the things I’ve been sure to do is to make sure I give back along the way. I may not be …
If I’m going to make it writing, I need to write more. Its as simple as that. And so, in the spirit of the New Year, and all its obligatory oddities despite the fact that its just another day, I’m setting up a 2015 resolution. In 2015 I’m going to write a short story every …
I wrote this in a single sitting for a contest I didn’t win. Still; super fun thing to try out and I’ll be trying again. Gareth spat dust out of his mouth as he eased himself down from peaking over a hillock. The battered remains of his unit were around him, dirt smeared faces showing …
This is a blog post that I’ve actually been chipping away at for a couple of weeks. Invariably, writers need to decide what to name their creations. Sometimes this comes wholly naturally, while other times it is a struggle that goes on for days, weeks, months, until eventually a name is pasted on and it …
It was, admittedly, not supposed to be how I started 2015, hustling to find work freelance writing and editing, while trying to finish a novel and get short stories published on the side. It is, however, what happened. It has been a complicated path that got me here and, frankly, I’m stressed. I get stressed …
This came about through a happy accident; after making some amazing and delicious cupcakes for a New Years party, I went to pan fry some gnocchi in butter for lunch. Somehow, I had managed to spill a significant amount of cocoa powder in the cast iron pan that I used for the gnocchi. I then …