Your Memoir Can Be A Compelling Story You may be a frequent memoir reader, or only pick one up now and again, but either way, you know that powerful memoirs can take you, the reader, on an exhilarating ride. If you’ve never read a memoir, pick one up, you’re in for a treat. Great memoirs have all the intrigue and excitement of fiction with the added bonus of knowing they really happened, making … [Read more...] about How to Write A Great Memoir Using These 5 Tips
7 Ways to Write a Great Mystery
How to keep your reader in suspense When I meet new people and tell them I’m a writer, I get one of two responses. Either their eyes glaze over, and they say something like, “Oh, that’s nice,” or they get excited and start firing questions at me “What do you write?” “Would I have heard of you?” “Can I buy your book?!” This post is for that second group of people. The ones who get excited. This … [Read more...] about 7 Ways to Write a Great Mystery
On Why I Write
Storytelling With Pen and Paper When I tell people I am a writer, they usually have one of two responses, some say "Ohh," and then gaze off into the distance as if there is not much more to say. I might as well have said I was an elephant. They cannot relate to what I do or who I am any more than if I had a giant trunk and ate copious amounts of leafy greens all day. And that's OK. Others, … [Read more...] about On Why I Write
Vacationing
Car Camping and Bo Derek Braids We never went on real vacations. We didn’t have any money, and my parents never got their act together to plan anything more than car camping. My dad would take us car camping and then toss me and my sister in the tiny two-person piece-of-shit tent. He’d take the deluxe model for him and the girlfriend. When the rains came, it was every man for himself. I couldn’t … [Read more...] about Vacationing
Spaghetti alla Carbonara
A Hearty Roman Pasta Is Also Italian Bacon & Eggs Pasta alla carbonara, the quintessential comfort food--and one of my favorite plates of pasta--made its debut in 1944 after the allied liberation via the Italian newspaper La Stampa. It was described as a Roman dish when many Italians were eating eggs and bacon supplied by United States troops. According to Wikipedia, the name … [Read more...] about Spaghetti alla Carbonara