I’ve never thought much about how different people approach reading horror stories. After all, I don’t write scary stories. But I recently attended an event celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va., and someone posed the question: What kind of story gives children goosebumps? What type frightens a teenager? I’m sure […]
What’s the fastest way a journalism major can fail an assignment in news writing class? Spell a proper name incorrectly. As far as my journalism school professors were concerned, misspelling your interviewee’s name was a cardinal sin – and it earned an automatic F. It didn’t matter if your reporting was stellar, if the piece […]
Early this summer, my foot twisted on a bumpy edge of pavement, sending me sprawling. Goofily, I might add. This humiliating incident happened at our local farmers’ market, just moments after we’d stopped at a food truck. The last thing I saw before I hit the ground were multiple layers of my breakfast sandwich sailing […]
For someone who thrives on storytelling, I live in bountiful times. Traditional media – books, radio, and television – have fed me for most of my life. But in the last few years I find myself taking more and more bites from an ever-growing and overflowing buffet. Streaming TV and YouTube offer new ways to […]
As writers and storytellers, we’re voracious consumers of narrative in all its forms – from books and podcasts to movies and television. For us, it’s not just an enjoyable way to spend time. We also discover inspiration and lessons we can apply to our own writing. That’s why, once a month, we’ve started to […]
