For today’s Unblocker (#20, by the way, assuming I’ve been counting properly) I’ve chosen a photo from a brand new photo-friend, Kerry...

Sometimes we see a news story that causes the fiction writer in us to jump with anticipation. You know, a quirky story, buried somewhere...

I am in a most-excellent situation, for a writer of fiction. Last year, my wife and I made some dramatic decisions and completely...

Time for another photo-inspired writing prompt. <img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-386" class="size-full wp-image-386 lazyload"...

[su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98sWW0tMdTQ”] Here’s the latest installment of The Three Minute Writer – Social...

So, here’s what I see when I look at my all-time blog stats: <img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382" class="size-full wp-image-382...

This exercise, adapted from The 3 A.M. Epiphany is all about point of view and “writing the other.” In the scene you are about to write...

Don’t take anything I’m about to say as an indictment of my wife or as an indication that I wasn’t thrilled that we had a summer vacation...

Hey there! Looking for some input, here. Below are four possible cover concepts. Would love to have some “other eyes” giving these a...

It all started with Ken Mueller of Inkling Media. (If you know Ken, you can imagine several ways that sentence makes sense…) Ken wrote an...

The Front Porch Journal is an online literary magazine published by Texas State University in San Marcos. They publish three or four...

As Albert King used to sing: Don’t be afraid come on in You might run across some of your old friends All your loneliness I gotta soothe...

Here’s the thing…there aren’t a lot of people active on G+ yet, so what I’m about to say is, possibly, something I’ll take back later....

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Wow. Unblocker #13, the Waffle House photo prompt, was a big hit. Thanks! I’d love to read some of the stories inspired by that photo, if...

Here’s the latest edition of The Three Minute Writer. This time I tackle “writing prompts and exercises” and how I use them to improve my...

One of the great things about Twitter and other such social media outlets is that I get a chance to chat briefly with folks I would never...

I don’t know how fiction writing works for you, but for me, a new location often spurs a story, or at least a story idea. I’ve been...

Every month Amazon runs their $5 mp3 album special. 100 albums, on sale. I’ve bought a LOT of these $5 albums over the years, because...

This is one of those prompts where I want you to let the story fly without thinking about it. Pretend that you have ten seconds to keep...