Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite American authors. I love how so many of his stories are dark, creepy, and suspenseful, but they never quite cross the line into outright, over-the-top gore. Poe also is brilliant at writing unreliable narrators, people who believe their motivations are reasonable and their actions justified, even when… Read more »
I’ve been thinking a lot about all the writing resources that are out there on the web—both free and not free. This got me wondering: “How do we manage it all? How do we tell what’s good from what’s not? And how do we know our time and money will be well spent?” In other… Read more »
My author dreams began with my obsession with reading. I’m a book fangirl at heart, so it won’t come as a surprise that I love the Reading with Purpose tenet of DIY MFA (side note: I really love all three tenets, but reading will always hold a little edge on the others). When I first… Read more »
