Writing Tips

How I Wrote a Gamebook: The Basics

Last month, I wrote about why I created "The Citadel of Bureaucracy." Over the next few months I want to cover the how. Being a horrific...

Three Years a Writer

Ah, the pandemic. Funny how an entire year can slip away in this uncertain time, like an untethered ship on an ebbing tide that's sucked...

Two Years (and a bit) On . . .

Picture it: Ottawa, 2018; a cold January. A thirty-something sits at his dining room table for some old-school First Edition D&D solo...

What it's Like to Seek Publication

So, what's it like to pour your heart and soul into a short story and pursue publication? I thought I'd start out with something hopeful...

How to Dodge the Wily Writer Shark

I entered the writing world tentatively, via competitions and the murky waters of social media. Thirty days later, I had been targeted by...

5 Things to Know About Writing Competitions

I like to learn the hard way, sink or swim, by jumping in with both feet. Okay, maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but it's a hard . . .

Rewrite Hell; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Process

Being an emerging writer (read: aspiring n00b), I learned a lot over the past year, when I . . .

10 Tips to Write Better Short Fiction

I'm sure there are zero-to-novel writers out there, but I suspect most first dabble in drabbles, twabbles and flash these days. I was...