Dear Reader, Last night I hit a wall while writing. I usually have an hour or two each night where ideas flow, story elements come together, and the story progresses. But as I come around the corner to the last 1000 words of my story, I hit a wall. Ideas were not coming together. The story wasn't aimlessly drifting: I felt like I was on-track with the story, and I had enough space left within the word limit to complete the story. The problem: the ending just wouldn't come. Mu

Dear Reader, Today marks the second day of #ZuJuWriMo, and as is customary for me when I start a new short story, I map out where the story will go to get a sense of pacing and timing. And I found myself in that terrible place where I knew that the story that I was setting out to write wouldn't be more than a few pages long (and not even good pages at that). So I chucked my story. That's right: the story I'd been thinking about for weeks leading up to the competition, out the