Recently I was introduced to a gorgeous poem by the late Charles Bukowski called "so you want to be a writer?" Here's a small exert: if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and [...]
A few years ago, my novel writing class had a high-profile guest speaker talk to us: the award-winning author of a YA book we had been assigned to read about a week prior. I was pretty jazzed about it considering how much I'd enjoyed the story. I've had predominately good experiences with meeting published authors [...]
Okay, so I've been doing this blogging thing for a while now and I want to continue doing it. However, I don't feel nearly as attracted to my blogging template as I once did a year and a half ago. I would like to change it to make it look a bit more professional and less [...]
The Crooked Pen 