Making the Short Story Work for You
When you reach a road-block with your novel, what do you do? Go for a long walk? Vent on social media? I go to a tried-and-true backup that I know I’m good at: short story writing. I got my start in short stories in college, so they’re a comfort blanket for me. And I’ve found interchanging novel-writing with short story-writing provides a unique honing of writerly skills that I would otherwise lack if I only concentrated on my novel: You learn to complete a story arc in a fin
I am a Master Trapper
Once upon a time ago, when I was living in Northern Virginia, we had a squirrel problem. We'd been hearing them in our garage for quite some time, galloping about like wolves over our guest bedroom, but it took a while before we realized where they were coming in from: the side corners of our garage's roof. So, like any good, nature-loving idiot, I decide we'll humanely trap said squirrels and relocate them to one of the many forested areas within a 10-mile radius of our hous
