“Point of view can never be incidental or accidental. It’s as fundamental as the choice between present and past tense, or formal and informal diction, or dramatization versus summary and exposition.” —Peter Selgin,
I woke this morning from a dream so real I could taste the words I’d been speaking in my throat. It’s a recurring dream—not the actual events or settings, but the theme and
Lately, I’ve been racking up rejections. It’s nothing new (I’ve been in the publishing game for about two decades now), but it never gets any easier. Partly this new long-list of (often kind
Raise your hand if you’re a self-identifying perfectionist. Now, raise your hand if you’re a closet perfectionist, passing off as Type B or laid back, but secretly freaking out unless everything is JUST
May is Short Story Month! It wasn’t until I landed in grad school that I embraced short stories. Now, I find it hard to read anything else (ok, that's an exagerration, but only