Like many writers I know, I’m a pack rat when it comes to information. Anything I see or read or hear that I think might be useful for a story at some point or another gets clipped or bookmarked or jotted down for safekeeping.
The trouble with this is that until recently I didn’t have [...]

Our words have weight.
That’s something that I didn’t often think about when I started my writing career.  I was far more concerned with the story, of getting the characters and the plot and the action down in a way that will make the act of reading an enjoyable one than I was with the impact [...]