In the wake of the Boston terror attacks at the marathon the other day, some strange twists developed that gave me pause for thought.  And ...

So there's a lot of writing advice out there.  A lot of it's great.  Some of it stinks.  I've even thrown my two amateur cents i...

I find it odd, this thing called voice.  I read quite a wide variety of authors, both classic and contemporary, and with the good ones, no m...

Kurt Vonnegut's best known work is part war memoir, part dark comedy, and part science fiction.  None of those genres make the book what...

Words: they say a picture is worth a thousand of them.  Fair enough, but I think sometimes the exact opposite is true.  Sometimes nothing ca...

Recently, a couple of people have passed on blog awards to me, and I thought it was time to look into that subject a little deeper, and pass...