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Confessions of a Former Literary Book Snob

Some Brief End of Year Personal Updates

We're All Coming Home in the Dark

Why Do You Write?

I’m All Out of Hustle

It’s A Dark Day to Be An American

A Case For Quiet Characters in Writing

What I Learned From Opting Out in Search of a Better Life

The 1980s.

How To Stop Caring What People Think Of Your Writing

"You're Perpetuating Evil By Writing About It."

Imagine Ted Bundy With a Whisk

FINALLY, I Have a New Novel Idea

When the Cool Writer Kids Won’t Let You in Their Club, Create Your Own

I Am A Country of Wants

I’ve Been Ghosting My Third Book

What I Learned From Living Four Years “On The Run” in Airbnbs

Want to Be a Great Writer? Don’t Brag About Being a Non Reader

Why I'm Happy I Was Diagnosed with Autism at 46.

Writers Should Never Be Packaged, Peddled, and Productized

Don’t Let Social Media Steal Your Artistic Joy

Imagine an Internet Free of Rage Bait and Hate...

"Don't You Forget About Me"

How to Write Your Way Out of Your Novel’s Middle

You Don’t Need to Write Every Day to Be a Great Writer

Have You Ever Just Wanted to Disappear?

Being Grateful Might Be the One Thing that Pulls You Out of the Dark

Don't Fall for the Sham That is The Cult of More

I Started Ozempic Because of My Illness

This is What Eats the Heart

Is Middle Age Apologizing For The Terrible Person You Used to Be?

Great Writing Isn’t About Following a Formula, It’s About Feelings

Where Have All The Weirdos Gone?

It's Time for a Change...

This Spinster's Doing Just Fine, Thanks.

Why is a five-year-old child marketing retinol?

How Far Will You Go to Belong to Someone?

"Shut Up, Granny"

To All the Keychains I’ve Loved Before

And then what happened?

You Have All The First Lines, But No Time

Embrace Your Cringe Writing

You Don't Need to Write Every Day to Become a Good Writer

Here Comes the Sun

Find Me a Place Called Home

Maybe Gen-Z Isn't Missing the Plot