A whole world on a single page! The short story morsels of One Page Worlds are flash fiction adventures of all flavors. Every Wednesday will feature a complete story in one page, or the first page of what could be a novel or novelette. Sharing the fun and geekery is the best part of writing! Please tweet or comment with your guesses on what genre, character, and job is central to each tale. Enjoy touring new universes each week with One Page Worlds! * * * * * “Wrinkles is alw

Summon up all your badassest writing powers and unleash them with perfect formatting, grammar, and plotting! Even when you do that, you’re gonna miss some of the targets you’re aiming for. And that shit’s okay. Missed your goal of doing traditional publishing in two years? You still wrote the thing, and you came away with your writer’s knives sharpened and ready. For the next goal. Learned all the self-publishing lingo and put your book out there in the rainforest only to sel

Don't you just love it when your work sucks? Dumping rumploads of time into learning your craft and producing brilliant art feels friggin’ good. Then you learn some more, create more art, and BOOM! Your old stuff sucks shark dick. You’re not alone. Every creator out there has produced material that sucks more fish dong than they’d ever care to admit. Know how they broke the suck cycle? By learning and returning. Learn and return. Create, then take a break and branch out. Feed

Screw the drama and the negativity that’s rampant in today’s reality. It doesn’t get permission to rule you. Screw cliche end-of-the-year bragging about the lists of my accomplishments this year. Creating stories people can laugh with and enjoy means more than, “Look what I did! Gold star for me!” This New Year’s Eve, it’s all about finding what you have to say. You-friend and reader-have a voice. I don’t just mean the one you use to belt out songs in the car when no one else

They say, "Network with other writers." *Writes past midnight* *Meanders on social media* *Gets invited to late night Q & A* Am I doing this right? Geeking out about writing is always a blast, so thanks to KA Dowling for the invite to this hilarious Halloween Q & A. The link to yours is right here, and if you click it three times. . . Halloween's a time when your bravado falls away like the cheap mask it is. Here's a little of what's underneath mine. 1. Are you a scaredy cat