Old horror writer back from the dead…
Last week I wrote about why memoir is having a moment in 2025 and why your story matters. Today I want to get practical and tell you how to write a memoir. How do you actually take a lifetime of memories and turn them into a coherent story that readers will want to finish? I … Read more
In my last post, we wrote about what documentary fiction is and why it matters. Today I want to get practical about the craft itself—specifically, how you build a documentary fiction structure that makes verifiable facts feel like inevitable story. Because here’s what nobody tells you when you start writing documentary fiction: it’s not just … Read more
You know that moment when you’re reading a history book and you think, “This is fascinating, but I’m falling asleep”? And then you pick up a novel and think, “This is gripping, but is any of it true?” I’ve been wrestling with this problem for months while working on The Healing Physicians—a project that tracked … Read more