athistleinthewind

So, recently I’ve been watching and reading a lot of murder mysteries. It’s a fall thing really. When the weather gets colder and the cafes start serving pumpkin spice latte, I like to curl up with a good murder mystery.  You’ll see…

To quote Chuck Shurley from Supernatural: “Endings are hard. Any chapped-*** monkey with a keyboard can **** out a beginning, but endings are impossible. You try to tie up every loose end, but you never can. The fans are always gonna *****.…

I’ve started submitting some prose to literary magazines recently and as usual, I kept running into the same problem: the word count. In my guide on how to write a short story, I talked about how to structure and write a short…