My primary goal this year is not to let teaching run my life, especially now, when there’s so much going on in the world. I need time to be me and do things I like to do. So, work is not happening at home this year. Reading, however, is. Here’s what’s lined up for September….
As dust swirled around him, Amo pulled his rickety wagon over the rugged landscape of The Past. The only sound for miles was the squeak of his wagon, which he knew better than to take outside without oiling first. But Amo was too aggravated that day to care. He didn’t think about the drones that…
Max had a wife and son. Both were dead—killed off during the cleansing of ’71. He lived in the ruins outside C—, with a woman he slept with and his brother, Amo, who had lost his wits. The woman rarely spoke and was hardly around. At present, she had ventured off to find illiterate work…
The following short story is about a teacher teaching from home in a dystopian society. It is a draft and is possibly the first installment in a series of related, but standalone short stories. Written about a year ago. “The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but…
It takes me about three-and-a-half to four weeks to write the first draft of a full-length novel, and that’s writing anywhere between two to four hours a day. How I do that is really simple. I use the Pomodoro Technique. Pomodoro means that you do only one thing for 25 minutes (in this case writing),…
Hi! Thanks for checking out my first book review. You won’t be disappointed. N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is so good that reviewing it poorly would take skill. I’ll give you an idea of what the story is about and then share my thoughts on the novel’s themes and delivery. In the end, I hope…