CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG WRITER?
With the end of one decade and the approach of a new one, I'm looking back at my last decade of writing, by far, my most successful....
My first submission
I wrote this piece right after I moved to Providence, RI in the early seventies. The beginning and end are missing. Why I called it BLACK...
A Craft So Hard To Learn
Over million self-published titles were published in 2018. According to a report from ProQuest affiliate Bowker that number was up more...
Confessions of a Very Young Writer
I moved to Rhode Island in the early seventies and had pieces published in each of the three Providence literary journals. A poem in...
Dialogue: The Basics
“There's no absolute rule about when you should use dialogue and when you shouldn't, but here's a good generalization: If a stranger...
Setting
SETTING: A story doesn’t take place in a void, the action must take place somewhere. The setting is the laboratory in which to study...
The Short Story: Point of View Made Simple
POINT OF VIEW (POV) SIMPLIFIED Point of view is the most difficult decision the short story writer has to make. It can be very...