Freelance Writing

Last week I had a fantastic time writing a freelance story for New Jersey’s, Sea Isle Times magazine. While the hardcopy of the magazine is available in Southern New Jersey, you can take a look at the online version of my story here. The story details endurance swimmer Bruckner Chase’s history making swim from...

I was a media escort. With those five words, John McNally begins his fictional biography of Jack Hercules Sheahan, a once promising graduate of “The famous Iowa Writers Workshop”. Jack, is suffering one of the greatest bouts of writers-block and underachievement to come out of The Workshop since its founding in 1939. For those...

Recently I have been reading Anne Perry's early books and trying to discern the secrets of her popularity and longevity as a writer. Perry published her first Victorian detective novel when she was 39 years old and has since published more than 50 books. The amazing thing is that not one of her books...

Blog: Should You Apply for a MFA Program in Creative Writing? Here’s the scenario: You have always wanted to become a writer and have considered getting a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in creative writing but aren’t sure if you want to invest the time and money. The question: Should I apply for an...

When you start to closely examine both print and electronic periodicals, it becomes apparent rather quickly that there is a lot of repetition in the material being published. It’s not plagerism, but the way the professional, commercial writing world works. What often happens is that a writer will come up with an original idea...