Daniel Smith

When we look back on our earliest memories, chances are we will find them heavily infused with “setting.” For it is “setting” that inspires fondness, stirs the senses, captures wonder and ignites fears. How did you, and how will your characters, interact with “setting?” For it is that connection…

My eleven-year-old grandson came home from his last day of school in June proudly waving a certificate that his fifth grade teacher had awarded him. On the certificate, in bold letters, were the words, “MOST LIKELY TO SAVE THE WORLD.” He believed those words…

Fiction. It’s that comfortable place where characters, plot and settings are all figments of the author’s imagination. That safe, manufactured place where anything goes – right? Wrong…