The Mathematics of Writing
History—and nonfiction of various types—offers a wonderful smorgasbord of events and interrelationships for writers to base stories on. Most writers—myself included—have mined nonfiction for fictional...
View ArticleFlash Memoir: ‘Spinster’
Note: I’m off hiking at Point Reyes National Seashore this week, so I’ve posted one of the stories from my flash fiction collection, Flashes of Illumination. This is what I call flash memoir: a type of...
View ArticleStory Excerpt Sunday: From Ink Dance by Deborah J. Ross
Ink Dance Essays on the Writing Life by Deborah J. Ross Where do you get your ideas? According to a highly successful writer friend, the Idea Fairy leaves packets of them under our pillows. When I tell...
View ArticleConfessions of a Ghost Writer: Part 1
I have been a full time writer since 2005. During that time, I’ve penned eight original or shared-world novels, had four of them published (with a fifth due out in July) and am working sporadically on...
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