Saving the World One Word at a Time – Writing Cli-Fi

Available on Amazon Discover how writing fiction can make the world a better place. This book offers instruction, inspiration and prompts for writing cli-fi; speculative fiction that focuses primarily on the ways that climate change is transforming our world. Explore how plot, place and character development can make climate change personal. By anticipating and elaborating … Continue reading Saving the World One Word at a Time – Writing Cli-Fi

the albatross and ebola

This is the Light-Mantled Albatross. And proof of the persuasive power of the written word.   The albatross has become a metaphor for psychological burdens carried as penance. This was not always the case. In fact, until 1798, being followed by an albatross was generally considered good luck. What changed? Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a poem in which a mariner … Continue reading the albatross and ebola