Topics coming up: Keeping vs. back burner scenes. Plots threads. Rounding out the characters. Today: Building character(s). By starting...

This is about books, but the idea behind it is broader than that. The message is simple, and it is in the title but how it plays out can...

I would like to talk to you about a miracle. The raspberry. But I am getting ahead of myself. Let’s make a clear definition: Miracle: a...

In the last section we discussed the source of writing, which were ideas. Today we are going to give the second step in the architectural...

Today we are only going to talk about the next five methods of increasing your reading volume.  Maybe we will slip in some bonus material...

Helen Adams Keller born in 1880, lost her sight and her hearing after an illness when she was 19 months old. In a time before women’s...

I am very excited to release to the website, The Fall, Part 2. If you haven't seen The Fall, Part 1 check it out here. Short stories will...

Before you can write a book, you need an idea. I tend to write inside of fantasy and science fiction to varying degrees. Adjacent fields...

TTRPG = Table Top Role-Playing Games. If you have never heard of them or have never tried one, the most popular one, though not my...

In the previous Your Brain of Tomorrow, we discussed the importance of reading for the neurobiology and mental health of any individual....

Everyone has one story worth telling. Their own lives. It has been said every writer writes only what they know. We know our own lives...

Garden writers. Scaffold builders. Unstructured writers. Discovery writers. Plotters. Pantsers. Architects. Designers. There are as many...

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 24 hours X 60 minutes x 60 seconds = 86,400. I’m a normal human being… I sleep 8 hours. 28,800 seconds gone… There are 57,600 seconds left in your day. I hit the snooze button. 600 seconds…. I lost ten minutes to TikTok that I won’t remember or tell anyone about. 600 seconds… I procrastinated going to work, because I don’t want to be there, so I hit traffic and had to stay late. 30 minutes. 1,800 seconds. I didn’t feel like studying today, I

Neuroplasticity. Emotional Intelligence. Creativity. Empathy. These are all considered good things to have. I can’t think of the last...

Dialogue can let time pass slowly, quickly, or in a manner which is indeterminate. In general, when we are trying to show, and not tell,...

Yesterday’s mistakes are yesterday’s. They belong there, in the past, a reminder of what we did wrong, and why we need to do better. They...

Technically, Dribbles and Drabbles. The history of short, short supper short literature is not new. The legendary story popularly...

I would like you to go grab your phone, and see how many contacts you have. I’ll wait here. How many are friends? Family? Coworkers?...

In our world people are often arguing about the native casualties and who is to blame on thanksgiving for the atrocities of our past....

I do not know if you have ever read out loud to yourself. If you haven’t you should. Even the articles you read on your phone, though...