At first it seemed that being forced indoors, laid off work, and practicing social distancing would foster my creative endeavors. Just imagine what I could do with loads of free time alone—time to finish abandoned projects, to bolster my research, to type the stack of story notes languishing atop the file cabinet, and to expand…
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Yesterday’s Fiction for the Discerning Reader: Jason’s Top Five Picks
So I gather you are like me, cooped up in your house and wanting something to do. You’ve read all the books on your shelves and you don’t know what to read now. Well, here I am to the rescue with some timely choices! Originally I wanted to call this blog “Great historical fiction from…
Unpublished? Colorado Gold Literary Awards Contest is for You!
I choose to believe Colorado Gold will happen, come September. I choose to believe that we’ll figure out a new something by then—new rules of gathering, let’s say. I choose to believe we’ll start to put this pandemic behind us. And when Colorado Gold rolls around, if you’re an unpublished writer, you don’t want to…
Writing In The Time Of Pandemic
Writing In The Time Of Pandemic Distraction is the enemy of any writer.You sit down at the desk or open your laptop with the best intentions of working on your latest manuscript. Instead, you find yourself called to play online games, scroll through Facebook, Twitter feeds or Instagram. To obsessively check your latest book’s ranking…
In Love… But…
I’ve fallen in love. With a book. But as with every relationship, this isn’t a perfect love. There are some things I wish my significant other would do differently. I wish there were a little more dimension, that it were more dynamic, with more surprises and some intricacies to keep me guessing. Still, I love…