The Story That Got Me Into Grad School
I didn't get into grad school in 2000 as I'd hoped. When I asked one of my former professors, who was on the admissions committee, why his program had rejected…
Is it Possible to Make “The Final Conflict” Interesting?
Of Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling--which might better be understood as "22 questions and exercises that improve your storytelling odds" I get the biggest kick out of #20: #20: Exercise:…
Going For the Title
I just finished the first draft a new short story about a young woman who misses out on the Summer of Love because she has to edit her ailing Dad's…
Finally I’d Like to Thank Me, Without Whom This Blog Post Wouldn’t Have Happened.
I guess it's late in the week, so it's time for something trivial to become a thing. But Noreen Malone devoted a column in this week's New Republic to snark…