T.M. Jacobs
Don’t Let Your Mojo Turn into Nojo
Should you write every day vs write when you’re inspired to do so? For years this has been an ongoing debate among writers. There are...
T. M. Jacobs
I Write for Money
I write for money. “You should write for the love of writing, not for money.” This is a saying amongst writers. To say you write for...
T. M. Jacobs
NaNoWriMo is Over, Now What?
Since 1999, November has been known to writers as NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and once again it has come and gone. According...
T. M. Jacobs
The Worst Critique
Back in the 1990s I belonged to a writing group which was open to the public. This was not a closed group or tight-knit click of friends....
T.M. Jacobs
Time is the King to All Men – Why?
When I was a freshman in high school, there was a required essay distributed to our class. It was “Time is the king to all men – why?” I...
Kathleen Rice
Pacing and Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’
Pacing is one of the most important elements in writing, especially horror. Perhaps the best example of this is with Edgar Allan Poe’s...