Writerly Resources in Austin, TX

It seems like every week I meet someone new to Austin. That’s probably because people JUST KEEP MOVING HERE. Luckily, all these recent Austinites are super nice and many of them are writers. This is a great city to live in if you’re a writer. (I know, I know, I’m supposed to tell everyone AustinContinue reading “Writerly Resources in Austin, TX”

When Writers Go on Vacation

When Horror Writers Go on Vacation… They visit cemeteries and consult creepy fortune tellers and seek out local lore of haunted places. Photos: The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA; The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY; The Carousel Museum in Hartford, CT (fortune teller); Maine Ghosts & Legends: 10 Encounters with the SupernaturalContinue reading “When Writers Go on Vacation”

Where Ideas Come From

I just picked up an old journal from January of 2011 and found the first, very rough, draft of my poem “Enchanted Rock in September” which was published in the 2012 Texas Poetry Calendar. If you’d asked me yesterday, I would have guessed I wrote that poem in the summer, or maybe during a poetry lessonContinue reading “Where Ideas Come From”