Yearly Archive: 2017

Worry About It Later 8

Worry About It Later

I have this special gift. If there’s an obstacle to writing, I will find it, give it a name, and then trip on it and fall on my face. It comes naturally, I don’t have to work at it. The...

When to Share Your Manuscript 15

When to Share Your Manuscript

I tend to get excited about my stories while I’m writing them. I fall in love with the idea and the characters and I want to share that excitement with other people even as I’m working on the story. But...

Challenge of Writing Happy Poems 9

Challenge of Writing Happy Poems

I’ve recently found myself in a few conversations about happiness and poetry. More specifically about whether I plan to write poetry about happier things. Coincidentally, just before that, I’d been thinking about why I write poetry. It all began with...

Poem: Fragmented Sorrow 11

Poem: Fragmented Sorrow

Thank you for stopping by. This poem can now be found in my poetry collection “Origami Stars and Hot Air Moon” published by Winter Goose Publishing.