Trying to figure out what I was going to write about in today’s post when I came across this post called “Not Writing. I admit the title was the first thing to catch my attention. Because that isn’t exactly a title you’d associate with the craft of…
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January 20, 2015: What do writers do most? They write! The best way to perfect your craft is to practice your craft by writing regularly. Grab a cup of coffee, tea, or hot cocoa, take out your digital or paper notebook and write a short story.…
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2015: Writers write! The best way to perfect your craft is to practice your craft by writing regularly. Grab a cup of coffee, tea, or hot cocoa, take out your digital or paper notebook and write a short story. This week, we will practice…
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2015: Are you a writer? Yes? Then write! The best way to perfect your craft is to practice your craft! Just like musicians practice their scales regularly, writers should write regularly. Today is a good day to take out your digital or paper notebook and…
Read MoreJanuary 6, 2015: Writers write! The best way to perfect your craft is to practice your craft! Just like musicians practice their scales regularly, writers should write regularly. Today is a good day to take out your digital or paper notebook and write a short story.…
Read MoreJanuary 2, 2015: Writers write! The best way to perfect your craft is to practice your craft! Just like musicians practice their scales daily, writers should write daily. Today is a good day to take out your digital or paper notebook and write a short story.…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2015: Writers write! The best way to perfect your craft is to practice your craft! Today is a good day to take out your digital or paper notebook and write a short story. The Place: in a broom closet The Character: a melting snowman…
Read MoreEvery December, there is a wonderful holiday celebration in Midtown Detroit called “Noel Night”. People come from far and wide to visit stores, businesses, and the museums in the Cultural Center and have a great start to the season. The Green Garage Detroit holds an Open…
Read MoreI was just getting caught up on some posts from one of my new favorite sites, The Chronicles of Harriet, when I came across one that really got my juices going. Truth be told, I knew I was way overdue for writing a blog post, and I was…
Read MoreJust checking in on one of my more favorite sites, Nerds of Color, and saw the news that the long-awaited sci-fi anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction From Social Justice Movements is close. Very close. There are any number of reasons why this is such good news, not the least of which…
Read MoreThe Mayonnaise Murders Part 2 is here! I know it’s been almost a year since Part 1, but I wanted to get this just right. I’m really hoping you’ll find it worth the wait. I’m not kidding, I had a ball writing this, so if you have half…
Read MoreThe Mayonnaise Murders Part 2 is coming Oct. 20. The wild and wacky adventures of the outcasts from Planet 10, the mutant human/chicken hybrids hell-bent on revenge, a poorly dressed human/critter halfbreed who leads them, and so much more… Here is another sample scene. 2 Two hours…
Read MoreMunchkin’s Story (Excerpted from the upcoming “Mayonnaise Murders Part 2″ coming October 20) Everybody on the street called him Munchkin, but it wasn’t just because of his size. Granted, he was what most would refer to as itty bitty, weighing in at a comical 110 pounds,…
Read MoreSince I’ve already written my first, now may be a little late to ask the question. Still, I’ve been thinking more and more about what exactly it is that makes for a good children’s book as I continue working on my second. What is it that makes…
Read MoreAfter more than six months of on-again off-again reading, I finally managed to finish all five volumes of R.R. Martin’s still-not-finished fantasy saga, “A Song of Ice and Fire.” Five books, and nearly every single one of them over 1,000 pages’ worth of exquisitely (and excruciatingly)…
Read MoreSo I’m now in the process of attempting to write a children’s book for very young children, meaning those youngsters around 8-10 years old. And as I sat there in front of my screen this afternoon, praying frantically to the muse who I pay by the…
Read More“The Mayonnaise Murders, Part 2” is scheduled to be released in late September/early October 2014. This is one of a series of posts leading up to that release. Like with most of my characters, I’m not quite sure where the Gerruh really came from. They just…
Read MoreA lot of things come to mind in a lot of minds in a lot of places around the world when my city Detroit is mentioned. Sometimes it’s good, like the music of Motown. Or the legacy of the Motor City, the city that put the…
Read MoreThe first thing that comes to mind when you see a lot of these science fiction movies and shows, especially the ones set sometime far far away in the distant distant future, is that black folks aren’t expected to be around in that future. Science fiction…
Read MoreOn July 1, 2014, we lost award-winning and prolific children’s author Walter Dean Myers, who wrote over 100 books over his 45-year career. Mr. Meyers was the recipient of many prestigious awards, including: two Newbery Honor Books, three National Book Award Finalists, six Coretta Scott…
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