I love to read – almost more than I now know I love to write. For the past month, I’ve been reading far more than I’ve been writing. It wasn’t as pleasurable as I wanted it to be, because there was a nagging feeling that my reading wasn’t productive. I hadn’t been writing about it. I’m […]
This is probably the third or fourth time I’ve whined about my characters, but I truly do wish they would behave. It’s extremely rude, I think, that while being intricately painted, they should snatch the brush out of my hand and proceed to paint themselves. I’ve even had a few paint themselves out of the […]
The world from up there is very different. I took one last look at the high-rise and my former penthouse condo at almost its very top. And then I turned my back on it. I’d had my finger on the pulse of high-finance. I’d been master of profitable shenanigans that grew more outrageous with each […]
Any author who wants their stories to be read has to write good ones. Here’s the dilemma – how does one know what makes a good story? I doubt that anyone sets out to write a bad story, but on the other hand, I bet there are few – experts included – who can unimpeachably say […]
