Heavy. I’m hearing this word frequently amongst my friends, as in “Everything feels so heavy right now,” and I agree. Be it the cold and dark weather, the turmoil and tragedies happening across the country and globe, or simply holiday hangover, we’re all searching for some lightness. Until recently, I found mine at the gym….
Earlier this month, I had the honor of moderating my first BoucherCon panel, titled Walk the Line, Must Fiction Always Follow the Rules? In preparation, I set about determining which rules we might discuss and quickly discovered, as W. Somerset Maugham quipped, “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what…
In my MFA program, I learned about hybrid forms as a common technique in experimental literary fiction and poetry, but lately I’ve noticed it more often in the genre fiction I read. In his most recent novel, Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay interweaves scenes from a fictional screenplay with traditional prose. Brian McAuley uses the same…
With one week left before the deadline to enter the Colorado Gold Literary Awards, we are receiving more entries every day. I’m not here to discuss procrastination (plenty of other posts have already been written about that) but rather what a writer might be doing in those final days before a deadline, be it for…
Back in October, I wasn’t sure I’d get to write these words: on January 13, I graduated with my MFA in Creative Writing. I started the program at Regis as one kind of person and ended it someone different. Not simply in the sense that I learned and grew as a writer, though I hope…