Category Archives: Writing
2012 Baltimore Book Festival
This past Saturday I attended the Baltimore Book Festival with friend and fellow writer, J. Lea Lopez. I want to take some time to talk about the experience, as it was a first for me. I had looked at the website a few times after she had invited me, and I wasn’t sure if I …
Don’t Struggle With Every Word.
I take pride in my writing. Being a writer, I have to. I’m not about to have my name on lazy trash. I grant you, any given piece of writing may not be a masterpiece from within my opus, but not everything I write is intended to be. Still, I believe my quality control is …
Watch Closer?
A friend of mine, who is also both a writer and an actor, wrote this piece about people-watching over on her blog the other day. In it she describes the people she saw at a local coffee shop one afternoon. She mentioned how useful such a practice can be for both the writer and the …
Fiction Is Stranger than Truth?
Is fiction really that much more dramatic or convenient than real life? That is the consensus and I can’t deny that at first blush it makes sense to say so. After all, how often do we find our lives, or even our day unfolding in such a linear, logical, dramatic manner as found in a …
Writers Make the Worst Readers?
In order to be a good writer, you must be a good reader. There are what, about a billion ways of saying that? The concept is mentioned in what, 99.8% of every collection of advice for writers ever assembled? Something like that. And we know why this counsel is so ubiquitous; it is true. A writer …
Ty Unglebower 