Every day, I post a writing prompt based on my post. Why? Because everything is about writing. Everybody you meet has a back-story, and innumerable possible back-stories. You know the bag-boy at the grocery belongs to your best friend at church, but he could come from…
Whenever I finish a story, a full Wagnerian orchestra breaks into music and I ride onstage on a big white horse wearing a helmet with wings on it (I’m wearing a helmet, I mean, not the horse) and I sing, “I finished a story! Finished…
First, an announcement: My short story collections, MA’S MONTHLY HOT FLASHES: 2002-2007; LONNIE, ME AND THE HOUND OF HELL and THE KING OF CHEROKEE CREEK, are each now priced at $0.99. Go. Buy. Amazon. Smashwords. Now. Last Monday, I told about the beginning of My…
