Graduate School and Me

I am very excited - I just completed my very first graduate course at Towson University. What a great college, by the way. The course is called "Writing Short Fiction" and that's exactly what I did - I wrote short stories.

This was my first experience with short story writing and I must admit, I found it quite challenging. Now, that's not to say that I haven't tried reading short stories in the past, I have, but honestly, I never understood them. Now I do. Professor Downs rocks!

One day I hope to link my short stories to this blog so that anyone who would like to indulge me can. Although they still need lots and lots of work (I tend to write with too much exposition and no dialogue), I promise to keep plugging along and revising until I can't revise no more!

Oh, and here is a recommendation for a great anthology of 99 short stories - three stories apiece by thirty-three different short story writers. Give it a try - maybe you'll find one you love.
3 X 33: Short Fiction by 33 Writers (Mark Winegardner)

"I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. " John Cheever