It snuck up on me this year: September. I’ve been busy at work and working on the next Not About Lumberjacks story. Other things have had my attention. And then someone mentioned Labor Day weekend almost being here and… Well, like I said: September snuck up on me this year. The September Silence Each September, […]
Archives for August 2022
Trigger Warning
I never liked the term “Trigger Warning.” It quickly became synonymous with mocking people who wanted to know what might pop up in a story — as though that’s such a bad thing to consider. People who wanted to know what might be in a story were deemed weak…it’s literature after all, and we survived […]
The Death of Literature
I used to be in a writing group with two good friends. One evening, we let another friend — someone who doesn’t write fiction — sit in. He was impressed by the effort my friends and I put into the stories we wrote. It wasn’t our friends’ intent, but he said something about how he […]