And they lived happily ever after. Wouldn’t writing your story’s ending be so much simpler if all good fiction had to end this way? Predictable, but easy. Boring, but easy. But the truth is there are no hard and fast ways to bring it to an end, on ...
Posted Wednesday, April 10th 2013 at 11:05PM
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February is the month officially designated to celebrate all that is Black in history in America. This is the time that the rest of the nation steps back, acquiesce to our request for alone time and watch us step out in unhinged celebration. There wi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 1:02PM
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I would like to say that my Mom and I were always close but this is not so. She died in May of 2005. For years growing up it was as if we were polar opposites and the disparity between us developed early on. It wasn’t that we bickered and fought but ...
Posted Tuesday, January 29th 2013 at 8:56PM
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I used to work a job as a counselor for a group of delinquent teenagers at a day camp. Many days I felt like a beacon showing them the way. Other days I was searching for a beacon. These were the chaotic days. Depending on what they had for breakfast ...
Posted Thursday, January 24th 2013 at 5:42PM
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The fake girlfriend of Manti Te’o reminds me of the reality show Catfish. The host of this show tracks down a culprit in an online dating relationship to see if he or she is the person they are portraying in an online dating relationship. The show is ...
Posted Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at 4:21PM
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When I first started writing my book back in 2007 it seemed like a process with no end. I was working fulltime as a night auditor; days were for sleeping and nights, after my work was done, were for writing. Perfect. A couple pages a night was all I ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 6:59PM
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There is so much that can get in the way of writing; children, jobs, husbands, aging parents, and I could go on but I won’t. I’m not saying that you should write above all else or that the world must take a back burner to it. You have your own life s ...
Posted Wednesday, January 9th 2013 at 12:14AM
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