Finding Your Voice

I’ve been “officially” writing since 2007. And holy hell does that feel like a long time. When I was first starting out, I thought I just need an editor to tell me what this story is and help me fix it. The problem is, once I got an editor, we...

Fear of the Blank Page

Something has happened to me and I’m not sure what. It might be that the rejection list is growing. It might be that I wrote a LOT in Iraq and was hoping to have something to show for it, other than rejections (and when I say that, I’m strictly referring to the...

Writer’s Block

I have a cycle of writing. Not a process like other authors talk about. Mine’s a cycle. I go through bursts of being able to knock out three, four even five thousand words in a very short amount of time during a day. It feels great to look back over my word count log...