We Are Not In Competition

Tonight I was engaged in a conversation I find myself having more and more. It's as infuriating as it is baffling.  I was once again trying to dispell the Myth of Artistic Competition. I'm lucky enough to have two careers in the arts, as an actor and an...

GUNSMOKE – Welcome To Dodge – Chapter 2

CHAPTER TWO “All right, Chester, kick the door shut,” I said. Chester did, and the crowd got noisier on the other side. I knew it wasn’t the end of things.Ziegler was standing in the middle of the room, his chins working up and down as he said, “Marshal, I don’t kill...

Truth, Motive, & Tone

A huge component to what writers of Historical Fiction do is write about real people. That’s a huge component of what the readers are looking for – not just the clothes and habits of a distant time, but the flesh-and-blood beings who wore those clothes and had those...