Turning Down the Screws

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” – Henry David Thoreau in a letter to Harrison Blake, November 16,

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Marathoning

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” — Fred DeVito I’d been running for five and a half hours through the rural countryside surrounding Xenia, Ohio. My tired

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My Critics, My Friends

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” –

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Naked

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.” – Paulo Coelho That’s exactly how I feel sending queries to agents. Naked. Even if I weren’t an off-the-scale

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