The Pen Wrangler

I'm on my 4th draft That isn't a boast, and it isn't strictly true. It is kind of my 3rd draft, because my second draft was bor...

Do you carry a notebook? Something to jot down ideas in, even if it is just a name that pops to mind, or a simple phrase that arises in your...

Inspiration is easy. I'm not kidding. Honestly. I walk around with my little notebook, hearing snippets of songs, snatched segments of ...

A long, long time ago, I posted about incredibly short stories. I was about to enter a competition that required a 10 word story in the vein...

It was without doubt that The Hunger Games trilogy is full of many of the tropes that pervade YA fiction. Present and correct is the tyrany ...

I'm trying to enter competitions. It is a challenge I'm setting myself that if I want to be successful as a writer I need to write. ...

[Spoilers for Catcher in the Rye, Life of Pi  and Atonement . Potential spoilers for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Curious Incide...