The Top 10 Quivering Pen Posts of 2013

It was a year of change.  It was a year of distraction.  It was a year of heavy traffic.  It was a year of near-death.

Near-death?  Yes, unbeknownst to all but the most avid blog readers who have the Superman x-ray vision to see beneath the surface, there was a time when I considered closing down The Quivering Pen in order to devote more time to creative writing and, frankly, creative living.  I went through a period of malaise and burn-out in late summer and gave very...