Now,
It goes without saying
that this means I am a deadly super-spy,
put into sleeper mode, hidden amidst the sublimely mundane
Only faintly conscious of my true importance

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to write a terrible introduction with a sucky hook? Well, according to Brainyquote, someone named Jeffrey Dahmer once said, “A good introduction can make all the difference in succeeding in your plan.”​ Same with a bad introduction, only the opposite. In this blog post, I’m going […]

The other day a student asked me a question. Very quiet kid, been in my classes for 2 years, and 95% of his contributions have been smiling and nodding. Then, with no context, he asked me, “What do you think is going to happen to books?” I had many responses, but asked him to elaborate, […]

We spend a lot of time talking about modes of writing. What kind of writing is it? Informative? Persuasive? Rogerian? Definition? Narrative? We also spend a lot of time in our education system not teaching creative writing, which is – to use a pedagogical term – cuckoo-bananas. “Hey, you know the thing that’s great about […]

Max, Bonkers the beagle, and Reginald the melodramatic ghost return! If the above declaration and artist’s rendering doesn’t stir anything in you, then you likely missed out on last summer’s Choose Your Own Adventure story.  Or you didn’t like it.  Then I don’t know what to tell you.  Why didn’t you like it?  I worked […]

And now, continuing from part 4, the conclusion of… Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin Part 5: Death Holds A Staring Contest Ditching the Death Blood Cult priest had been easy – what with him having no eyes and all – but the fact that he knew they were coming meant they had no time […]

Continued from Part 3… Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 4: Hidden Where None Dare Venture Maxine frantically searched through the bottles and glasses behind the bar, crouched down out of the line of fire.  On the other side of the bar, an enormous brawl had broken out between Dragon and his henchmen, the […]

**Continuing Part 1 and Part 2 of our Choose Your Own Adventure week** Max And The Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 3: The Smell of Danger Reginald Winterthrop, when he was alive, was a man of rigid dignity and noble adventure – until the unfortunate instance in the Egyptian tomb left him a ghost, doomed to […]