So I had such a response from last week's newsletter that I couldn't let a special day like February 29th go by without some special Vortex love. CMT channel is broadcasting LEAP YEAR this Friday night. If you've cut the cable cord, have no fear. I've included links below to find out all the ways […]
It's December. Time for the annual roundup of writer-ly gift ideas from people whose romanticized idea of a writer comes from movies or legends handed down from the Edwardian age. Even Writer's Digest is guilty this year. A notebook? Really? Where is the creativity? Where's the sensitivity? Give a writer an expensive moleskin notebook and […]
It’s been a long time since a trailer compelled me so wholly to see a film. Though a bit vague (as all good trailers should be), The Lighthouse trailer promised a call back to H.P. Lovecraft, noir horror, psychological plundering, madness in artful black and white, and a challenging and rare film that relied on […]
When I sit down to write a fiction story, I make ten thousand decisions: what to detail, what to leave out; what to hang on the walls and echo through the chambers of story space, what remains silent; what of the laundry list of emotions I should pluck and what those emotions look like on […]
For Augustine, this question provided the most challenge at the thought of publication. Drafting the book was liberating. No stone was left unturned. But the thought of sending the memoir out into the world was daunting. Some of the people he wrote about are deceased. In a way, the memoir is his farewell to them. […]
Memoir, by nature, is self-indulgent. Unless someone is famous or comes with a platform of admirers who enjoy a sneak peek at a private side of their life, the memoirist can wonder if what he/she has to say is beneficial to anyone. What is it inside some people that makes them burn to tell their […]
