What do you look for in a short story?

I've been reading a lot - A LOT - of short stories this year. Sometimes it seems as if I could one day be really very good at writing them, others not so much. Sometimes I get a bit bogged down by the lyric beauty of the vast majority of the short story winners because, … Continue reading What do you look for in a short story? →

New Year’s Eve 2020

It gets a bit much, this writing malarkey. The weight of my own expectations. The need for validation. Blame my childhood. Blame my hormones. Something. When I get like this I retreat into books. The Artist’s Way tells me it’s imperative to have an Artist’s Date with myself. Quite tricky in lockdown, but there’s always … Continue reading New Year’s Eve 2020 →