Here’s the promised sidebar to the “Confessions of an Editor” article. Read that first. Then read this. This isn’t dated either. How to Write a Perfect, if Flawed, Short Story Kristine Kathryn Rusch So, how does one go from a group of three-year-olds screaming “Halleluiah Chorus” to singing the tenor solos in the Messiah on [...]
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Why is this dated? Well, I’m not an editor any more. I happily retired from that job in 1997. I am a writer first and foremost, and I was even in those days. Only people forgot that. They liked my editing and wanted me to edit more. They wanted me to spend all my free [...]
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Okay. So I’m not as organized as I pretend I am. So I don’t keep track of my non-fiction. That particular fact has never bitten me in the butt before now. I think of nonfiction as something I toss off, worth only what I get in the moment. So while I know this essay first [...]
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"When Thomas Jefferson Dined Alone"
