Top 5 Movies I Hated Initially, But Now Love
Before I get on to the topic at hand, a quick note: In 1992, my old band opened for the death metal band Cannibal Corpse. We had only been together a few months, and only had a half hour’s worth of...
View ArticleOn Constructive Criticism, Beta Readers, and Being An Accidental Fraud
Constructive Criticism Last week I found a great new (to me) website called Lit Reactor. You may have already heard of it, but if you haven’t, it’s a tremendous resource for writers looking to better...
View ArticleBest of 2013 – Blogs I Follow
It’s December, that time of year when everyone and their brother doles out their Top Ten and Year’s Best lists. And since I, on occasion, lack any shred of creativity and originality, I wanted to do a...
View Article5 Things I’ve Learned After a Year of Blogging
This is slightly premature, but let’s go with it: late February marks my one year anniversary here on the blog (blogiversary?). Yessiree, it’s been a whole 12 months since I started this thing…my, how...
View ArticleAnd Now, For a Brief Intermission
It’s hard for me to believe it’s been 20 months (almost to the day, coincidentally) since I started the blog. I’ve taken it seriously and I think it’s done wonders both for my writing itself and my...
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