A Small Profit Is Better Than A

Don't Love Anything That Can Be Taken Away.

I Live In Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's Where I Teach, At Western Carolina University. That Region Is Where My Family Has Lived For A Long Time And That Region Is My Landscape.

It’s Ever Been The Way Of The Man Of Science Or Philosophy. Most Folks Stay In The Dark And Then Complain They Can’t See Nothing.” – Snipes (185)

What I've Become Convinced Makes A Writer Are The Days You Hate It, The Days You'd Rather Stick Those Pencils In Your Eyes. Sometimes I Almost Punish Myself - If I'm Not Going Be Able To Write, I'm Not Going Be Able To Do Anything Else. I Just Sit There And Wait.

On The Last Drafts, I Focus On The Words Themselves, Including The Rub Of Vowels And Consonants, Stressed And Unstressed Syllables. Yet Even At This Stage I'm Often Surprised. A Different Ending Or A New Character Shows Up And I'm Back To Where I Began, Letting The Story Happen, Just Trying To Stay Out Of The Way.