On Writing

5 Petty Crime Lessons for Mystery Writers (Ripped from my local headlines)

There's no better resource for learning about your town and for providing inspiration for your writing than your local newspaper. Ever...

On Writing & Crime: What's in Your Car?

When I was 18 and living in an apartment with my brother, my Mazda RX-7 that cost me $1,200 and had chipped paint and a window that never...

Writing Safe or True: A Bad Words Mystery

I have a problem with my new book. Seriously. I’m a quarter of the way through my second edit of my dark, superhero novel - working title...

Mysterious Starts & Finishes

“Finishing is better than starting.” Ecclesiastes 7:8 Um, yeah! I’d even go as far to say that finishing is freaking awesome while...

The Mystery of What to Do When I Don't Know What To Do

Laundry, usually. That’s the truth. I usually turn to laundry when I’m at a loss. In fact, I just sat down from starting a load that...

The Mystery to Cracking Eggs

Cracking Eggs might seem like another mundane task, but there's more mystery to it than that. The way one cracks eggs may be a fairly...

The Mystery of Hope

Imagine typing up the most perfect pages you can create, folding them into paper airplanes, and releasing them to the wind in the hopes...

The Mystery of the Edits-Only Dimension

I’m about to enter the unforgiving EDITS-ONLY DIMENSION where creativity is chained in a prison of spell-checking, grammar-checking,...

The Mystery of Being a BIG Dummy

May 8, 2016 I’m a big dummy. My dad pointed it out. On Mother’s Day and in the midst of our life-craziness (Read about that here in my...

The Mysterious Jellyfish

Jellyfish go with the flow. These light, gelatinous blobs aren’t equipped for traditional swimming, so they go wherever the ocean...

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