Thanks to the blog 101 Reasons to Stop Writing, we have this lovely visual of the dumbassitude of queriers that don’t read the directions. Like the caption says, you spend all this time on your novel, pouring your heart, soul and whatever other pieces of you into it, only to flake out on the [...]

Think I’m being melodramatic, am exaggerating or am just downright mean when I say that most POD books are, really, crap? Well, as we all know, math doesn’t lie. It can’t. If it did, 2 + 2 would equal five and Pythagoras would be out of a job. POD-dy Mouth [...]

I figured it was about time I posted my short story that placed in the Rosalie Fleming Memorial Humor Prize (of which I spelled it Felming on the envelope, nice to know it didn’t matter). Just to give you a frame of reference, I got the notice at the end of January and did [...]

First off, I just want to say that, as my regular blog readers know, I’m not one for rants, at least in the traditional blogging fashion. This one isn’t going to be one of those but it’ll be closer than what I’ve come to before.
The only qualification you really need to be able to [...]

I’ve been thinking about it lately and I don’t think ‘Diamond Crier’ really represents my work since it took a turn for the sardonic.  Don’t get me wrong.  I do like that title but it better represented the work when it was more on the serious side.  It really is a trivial thing to be [...]

I think your hair is smoking.
I’m sure there’s been a time in everyone’s life where they’ve piled more onto their plate than they can eat (why do all of my analogies center around food???). Usually it’s not until you’ve added that fifth spoonful of potatoes when you realize that you’ve chipped the edge of [...]

The wealth of information the Snarkives has. This article discusses cliches not in terms of genre but just everyday usage. While this piece is focusing on overused cliche terms in print media, I think it’s entirely relevant when it comes to writing.
Usually when people think of cliches and fiction they think of “farm [...]