I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories…

Side 1: Who are these people who want to teach the N-word to our children? Side 2: Who are these people to mess with the classics?

These are God’s adjectives.

Rejected? No problem. Rejected again? Anger. Denial. Insanity. T.H. Mafi’s take on the classic cycle of a writer’s ego.

What’s missing from your life that you think you would have there?

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. ~~Matthew Arnold, poet and critic, 1822-1888

Stephen Hawking meets literary dreams meets Captain Obvious.

Your plot, setting, and story arc are good to go. But what should you name your characters?