When reading my faded yellow legal pads, I found several poems I wrote while eating lunch. Not surprisingly, food was my most popular topic, but there were a few about God or my late dog Buster. For months I sat on these poems with the hopes to read them at an poetry open mic after the virus passes. After being laid off in December, I gained the determination to publish the poems. Moving Meals full article
After months of writing dialog for an audio drama, I came to a grinding halt. Most of my writing came through an inside-out process, where I jumped into a conversation with a specific inspiration and found a flow. What came out are inconsistent sections that I later glued together into a scene. What didn’t come out were the important parts of a story. What does the main character want? What is driving the action? Early Story Writing full article