Short Stoies, Novellas and Novels, Oh My!
This year alone, I've completed a humorous Memoir, two novella's and nine short stories and I have two novels in progress, plus I edited a full-length novel for a close friend and I've been submitting short stories and flash fiction to competitions, so it's been a busy year so far, and all that while, I'm living as normal a life as possible, just like every one else. To say, I love what I do would be the understatement of the year, because I far more than love it. I eat, breathe, sleep, and even shower with it and I don't regret any of it. I find it takes a great deal of commitment to write daily and a ton of discipline, and I take the greatest joy in having deadlines. So I thought I'd take a few minutes to share with you what I'm learning while writing in different genre's and different styles as I travel along in this journey. I'll begin with the short stories, and I'll tell you why I love writing them so much. At first, the process...