Free (or Nearly Free) Things to Do in the City
It’s been an expensive year, and I’m not making a ton of money at present. Sucks to suck. But New York is as amazing as ever, so as of late […]
It’s been an expensive year, and I’m not making a ton of money at present. Sucks to suck. But New York is as amazing as ever, so as of late […]
Few topics are as complex, emotionally rich, and broad as death and our extremely varied reactions to it. Many, many, if not most fictional stories somehow touch on mortality, and […]
In my opinion, any good story of significant length needs at least one subplot. Secondary plots serve to add complexity, increase tension and impact, underscore the main plot, and generally […]
*Back from a brief hiatus—new job, sporadic posts to come. But I’m still here and wandering the City. 🌃🚕 Brunch is, fairly objectively, the most quintessentially New York meal––with the […]
This is the fourth post in a series of five on the elements of storytelling, in collaboration with the Ice Colony Podcast. Having gone in-depth on character, plot, and dialogue, […]
Antiheroes are, generally speaking, bad boys (and girls!) with rough exteriors and a multitude of flaws, but good hearts. What separates likable villains from antiheroes is, at the end of […]
For writers and bookworms—New York City is quite possibly the best place in the world to read and write and pay homage to great literary minds. From bookstores to writer-friendly […]
As a writer of emotional, character-based stories, there are few topics I find more rich and complex than addiction. There’s so much potential for both tragedy and redemption, and people […]
I am straight up obsessed with personality typing, and have become a particularly big fan of the Enneagram in recent years. Used by counselors and companies all over the world, […]
Fall is my favorite season, in NYC and in general. I’m a very spooky person, and I have about a ten degree range of comfort as far as temperature, so […]
I’ll never understand people who find history boring. It’s all like one ridiculous, bloody, passionate soap opera and it’s real. I find it fascinating to imagine long lost lives just […]
I absolutely love writing trauma in fiction. It’s been an intense interest of mine since I majored in psychology in college, taking several classes on the effects of trauma in […]