For the past few months, I’ve struggled to start a new novel. With my first idea, I got excited by scientific concept and dove deep into research. When I finally came up for air, I realized I’d wasted a lot of time. My story had a brain but lacked courage […]
More exciting news. My short story “The End of Sleep” just went live in the June issue of Luna Station Quarterly. The story is about a scientist who becomes addicted to a technology that triggers deep, realistic dreams of his dead wife. The imagined technology revolves around the very real […]
Another month, another horrific set of shootings that leave me shaking with sadness, shame and frustration. As a country, we seem to have forgotten how to care for one another, how to work together to solve problems. How to even agree what those problems are. The system feels broken, but […]
Writing a powerful ending is hard under any circumstances. Doubly so if you are trying to do something that goes against audience expectations. I don’t mean a “surprise” or “twist” ending, which is often a reader favorite. I mean an ending that is truly non-traditional. Maybe it refuses to use […]
Why are some readers and writers drawn to the fantastic? Is any work of fiction, even “realistic” fiction, truly realistic – and if not, then where and why do we draw boundaries between speculative and non-speculative stories? I’ve been thinking about these questions lately, and I found some unexpected answers […]
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