by Tom Hogan | Feb 24, 2023 | Book Coach, Screenplays, short story, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching, The Forever Game, Writing
After all these years of writing and having some of my work published, I rarely, if ever, considered word count. It wasn’t until Newsweek told me to lose 200 words of my carefully (and beautifully) constructed article on pedophilia in the Catholic clergy that I...
by Tom Hogan | Jun 2, 2022 | Writing, short story
“The one this morning, it’s like he had gills. Not that he liked the water, but he…” “… accepted it,” the woman said, spearing the onion. The skin on the back of her hand was abraded. “Let me guess. More than his tenth time?” “Fifteenth.” The man drizzled...