Essays
Essays is the home for my nonfiction writing.
These pieces grow out of experience and attention to the forces that shape private lives: family, care, responsibility, identity, power, and belief. Some essays stay close to the personal. Others step back to examine patterns, systems, or tensions that resist easy resolution.
What connects them is not argument or conclusion, but a commitment to looking carefully and allowing complexity to remain intact.
Embracing Light, Shadow, and Darkness to Create Interesting Stories
A writer’s exploration of how embracing light, shadow, and opposition in character development transformed a stalled draft.
Book Cover: Inspiration from Van Gogh’s Art and Life
A behind-the-scenes look at designing a book cover inspired by Van Gogh’s art, mental illness, and the balance between hope and darkness.
Craft and Business Resources for Writers, Speakers, and Storytellers
A list of craft and business resources for writers, speakers, and storytellers.
An Authorial Review of Where’d You Go Bernadette
A writer’s review of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, looking at humor, structure, pacing, and the authenticity of its mental health portrayal.
From Memoir to Fiction: an Author’s Journey
A reflection on shifting from memoir to fiction, navigating craft confusion, and deciding whether to claim the identity of an author.
Internal Genres or How the Protagonist Changes
A craft-focused exploration of internal genres and how protagonists change through worldview, status, and moral arcs.
Quiet pieces shaped by lived experience. Moments of pause, noticing, and meaning.
Writing from inside the work—endurance, doubt, revision, and the long middle where stories resist and slowly take shape.
