Interludes
My Self-Made Podcast Artwork is Meh and I Couldn’t Be Prouder!
One of the biggest hurdles of my writing career has been the acquisition of art assets to pair with my finished goods. Everything in my life is on a budget, and writing is no exception. However, the panacea for lack…
Eating Healthy on a Budget Costs Time Instead of Money
Eating healthy is almost as daunting as it is expensive. Walk into any Whole Foods and cruise the aisles for a few minutes. It won’t be long until you fully appreciate the wry humor of their second name, ‘Whole Paycheck…
Plateauing is Still Progress!
You know the scene: It’s bleary o’clock in the morning. You’re standing over the scale yet again, exchanging glares with the same blasted number as yesterday. Another day of pain and sacrifice in the books, and it feels like you’ve…
An Ounce of Foresight is Worth a Pound of Exhaustion
I lost my story post last week due to an errant keystroke. One finger, pressed down at the wrong time over the wrong key, cost me hours of work and the sleep I sacrificed for it. Hundreds upon hundreds of…
Write the Weird and Wonderful Stories of Your Secret Heart
My favorite writing to date is a story I wrote about giant bears fighting robots. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. I wrote a story about bear/man hybrids battling against the ruins of humanity who piloted giant mechs in the…
Start Making Hay Now, Because the Sun Won’t Always be Shining
“Whan the sunne shinth make hay. Whiche is to say.Take time whan time cometh, lest time steale away.” …
Making Words From the Daily Grind
Life is tiny stretches of complete terror bookended by long stretches of unimaginable banality. How does any facet of our lives make sense? We climb into cars we hate to drive to a place we distinctly don’t wish to be,…
Focus on the Little Things
My dad has a saying that sticks with me still all these years later: “Don’t sweat the little stuff, and in the end it’s all little stuff!” For the longest time, I was in agreement with him. Then I met…
Expect the Unexpected
Did you know that the rate of foreign body ingestion (FBI) by children under six has doubled in the last twenty years? Did you also know that boys are the most frequent culprits of such antics? If you’re wondering why…
You are the Time Lord of Your Manuscript
My story does not have a beginning. That did not stop me from writing the middle of it last night. I’d been working on the scene in my head for days now. It finally came together as I was working…