My Writing Year: Place Your Bets
I’m counting. I am six months into 2026 and over halfway through My Writing Year. “It’s a numbers game,” my brother once said. About what? I can’t remember, but I’ve always used the phrase to describe publishing. We all know the game. Or at least, I’m fairly familiar with how to play in the literary magazine world. I scroll through the calls for submissions, choose my prompt, tweak the closest piece I have, and hit send. The poem I write on a napkin is picked up quickly. The
Celebrating CRAFT Conversations
Reading for CRAFT has been an invitation into individual author stories sent from around the world and marked by their individual author journeys retold through career choices, awards, genre explorations, unique publications, and always the hope I share with those authors, a new, next opportunity. My application to read for CRAFT was one such new, next opportunity, and one defined by increased confidence in my editor voice. To read multiple times, sifting through phrases and
Father's Day: A Master's Class in How to Write Dialogue
Most dialogue practice connects somehow to observation. For example, a quick search about writing dialogue leads you to a Master Class article. The top practice suggestion is to listen to others talking and "Record everything they say and how they say it as specifically as you can." When I still lived in Guatemala, I completed this activity more than once; however, I never took notes more voraciously than when I moved back in with my dad. Since then, blogs posts, essays an
