During the climb of your Hero’s Journey to your goal of finishing your book, mastering public speaking or finishing your first marathon, you’ll meet awesome mentors and supportive friends, as well as “tor-mentors.” Tor-mentors are jokers who first appear to you as...
I’m currently working on the final edits of my new poetry collection, Heroes without Capes, which has been in the works about two years. It’s been three years since I released a new poetry book—the last being After the Steaming Stops in 2012. I took my time with the...
“Everything was fine until you showed up,” says UNC-Wilmington creative writing professor Philip Gerard when talking about how to start your memoir. Who is this “you”? It could be a death or a birth, but most times it is a death. And the death doesn’t have to...
While you’re writing your novel or memoir about your hero on the page, you’re also becoming a hero. You may not think of yourself as a hero: heroes are guys who rush into burning buildings while everyone else cries or they pop a grenade into a machine gun nest to save...
