As weapons go, I did not have many growing up. I wasn’t allowed toy guns or squirt guns because my mom was certain I was going to go around squirting my neighbors or pretending to shoot my neighbors. All that meant was I borrowed my neighbors squirt guns and squirted my neighbors that way. It’s…
Let’s begin here: If you’re writing in a contemporary setting, referring to certain foreign nations can rip a reader out of your story if you incorrectly describe that location because you’re an American and you don’t really understand how X country works. Example: United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. It is not a republic or…
So this new template I’m using doesn’t put the comment link on the front page. You have to click on 0 Comments and then click on comment. I will fix it when I have some free time. I notice that I’ve received NO comments since I made the switch. Thing is, other than that and…
I have two degrees, English with a focus in creative writing and theatre with a focus in playwriting. When I finished college, I considered myself a playwright. With the exception of two classes, my English education had been crap1, 2. Of my required creative writing classes, I had the same professor for all but one…