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I Need a Break... in the Story
Taking a coffee break from a rough day of reading. There are many rules of writing, both written and unwritten, that provide structure...
M.C.
Apr 15, 2025


Characters Need Flaws (Usually)
There has been an ongoing debate within my online critique group about whether every character in every story needs a flaw. “Characters...
M.C.
Mar 25, 2025


Under Whom Would You Serve?
We’ve all imagined it: living in a futuristic science fiction universe. Replicators. Holodecks. Phasers. And that’s just from Star Trek....
M.C.
Feb 18, 2025


Book Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War
This book was not at all what I expected, and I have rarely been more pleasantly surprised. This novella is more romance than science...
M.C.
Feb 3, 2025


Identify Solutions Not Problems
While in the early stages of my consulting career—well before I decided to focus on writing—I had had a client with an underperforming...
M.C.
Jan 7, 2025
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