For the Love of Short Stories

On the 20th last week, I celebrated with my dad his 91st birthday. I took him to lunch, then sat with him in his apartment and talked about the past: “The Good Ol’ Days” as many people who lived in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s tend to call those decades. He grew up in a … Continue reading For the Love of Short Stories

Discovery, Surprise, and Fun When Writing

I am neither a plotter nor a pantser when I write my books, yet I do both. Plotters blueprint their stories with outlines; pantsers don’t. Authors who don’t outline, “walk with their characters and listen to what they have to say,” to paraphrase William Faulkner. As a mostly-writes-short-stories author, I don’t outline my plots but … Continue reading Discovery, Surprise, and Fun When Writing