by jeffrey | Mar 17, 2026 | Fiction, Real Life
Here are three more shorts written in under 15 minutes each at meetings with a Writer’s Group I belong to. 1. Write about your favorite character in literature entering a library or book store (John Grady Cole, the young protagonist from All The Pretty Horses)...
by jeffrey | Feb 17, 2026 | Non-fiction, Real Life
I want to make a statement and a promise to my friends and family, and to all my readers: I have never used and promise never to use AI to write or even enhance my fiction. My short stories, poems and novels will always be 100% original from my own noodle. (I use an...
by jeffrey | Dec 17, 2025 | Real Life
Last month, when I wrote here exhorting everyone everywhere to take up reading again, I meant it. I hope you, if reading has fallen off your radar, if it has been choked and throttled and stomped by social media into a whimpering orphan like Tiny Tim begging for food,...
by jeffrey | Nov 14, 2025 | Non-fiction, Real Life
You know you ought to. Perhaps you have even told yourself, say, in the evening after someone convinced you to go with them to see Shakespeare in the Park, or some classical concert or ballet—The Nutcracker or The Messiah at Christmastime, and you came home and said,...
by jeffrey | Nov 10, 2025 | Non-fiction, Real Life
Do suicides experience relief from the painful circumstances that led them to such extreme measures? What if they cross over and find it’s somehow worse than staying in their physical bodies? What if people who commit suicide actually find themselves in a place...
by jeffrey | Apr 21, 2025 | Fiction, Real Life
Writing a modernized account of the biblical gospel comes with a new challenge I’ve never encountered in fiction writing. I continue to add material to my forthcoming book Blue Gospel, and I’ve recently added an account of the central figure’s birth...
