Blogs I have written on the more bookish subjects, like literary criticism, grammar, and story construction, etc.

• Hero Tales (on a conversation I had with my four-year-old about superheroes and then a researched discussion of hero types)
• Weird for Weird’s Sake (about defining art based on its strangeness… or not)
• POV and Other Narrative Modes (a primer on point of view, voice, etc.; why present tense might not work)
• Era of the Villain (we are living in the era of the entirely sympathetic villain)
• Novel ou Novella? (the difference (or not) between novels and novellas, and many other literary forms)
• YA Vs MG (the difference (and gradations) between Middle Grades and Young Adult fiction)
• Tribute to a Magical Realism Giant (a bit of biography following the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Tribute to a Giant of Voice (a biography and personal aspirations following the death of Maya Angelou)
• The New Narrative Mode (about how changing perspective in literature is NOT changing POV, how POV is NOT Voice, and how I coined a new term to enlighten us all)
• The Collective Imagination (making my claim that I am not about to copy, and nothing is new under the story sun)
• The Bad Comma (for when you thought writing ability and grammar ability were the same thing)
• Writer’s Fatigue (and how I don’t believe in writer’s block)
• Books That Changed My Life (umm… books that changed my life)
• A Book a Day (wanting to read more and read better, and setting a ridiculous goal for myself)
• Computers for Writers (which will probably be out of date pretty quick, but…)
• Publishing Seminar with Scott Reintgen (which was incredible, so give the notes a look-see)
• Revise and Resubmit (what to do when you get a request from a publisher to revise and resubmit instead of whatever else)
• Magical Realism, Discussed and Listed (what is magical realism and what are some books I can read in the genre?)