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When Your Dream and Your Achievement Differ

At age 15 I envisioned myself as the next Stephen King. I wrote self-indulgent stories that were short on plot and long on gore. I would be the next horror master by 20, I told myself. I couldn’t call myself a writer unless that happened.

At age 25 I self-published my first novel. I thought by simply putting it on Amazon, it would blow up and I would become an overnight sensation. I would be a best-selling novelist by 30, I told myself. I couldn’t call myself a writer unless that happened...

Vivid Writing with Verbs

Have you ever wondered how to easily bring to flat scene to life? The key is to use verbs! Everything can be a character – a tree, a flower, a car, everything, if you just know how to use verbs. Click below to learn this very handy and useful trick through my very first article at the The Write Practice:

New Story Available!

My new story, Flavor, is available on Short Fiction Break. This story was an interesting one to write, written after feeling inspiring by Ken Liu’s Paper Menagerie, mentioned in a previous post. The idea actually originated from the extended universe of my novel, Headspace, where a particular species was born texture eaters and had no concept of flavor. In this story, however, it is the humans who have evolved beyond a need for flavor, or even taste buds themselves, until an unusual discovery…

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