Writers Life

Mourning is Broken Once Grief Erodes

Two years after the death of his father, Mark Cantrell shares this personal essay to mark the anniversary and celebrate a life lived

Mar 17 •

Learn to navigate if you want to gaze at the stars

Dragged kicking and screaming from the archives, here's a fanciful exploration of a writer's emerging self-awareness in craft

Aug 31, 2024 •

This is our Primal expression

Here's an old piece of writing that somehow feels like a riposte to today's obsession with generative AI 'creativity'

May 31, 2024 •

Update: Trust me to bring something dark to the party

Literary and arts journal Midsummer Dream House features the novelette, When Darkness Comes

Apr 13, 2024 •

An overdose of criticality

That damned internal critic never fails to demand a journalistic 'right-first-time' approach to creative writing; it can be sorely testing...

Jan 26, 2024 •

Tangle me in spaghetti, I'll eat my way out

That's if indigestion – more likely reality – doesn't get me first

Jun 25, 2023 •

If not now, when?

With bereavement still fresh, this is surely no time to launch a Substack but a writer has to write, right?

May 25, 2023 •

Coming soon: Tome of an Obscure Scribbler

Introducing SFF author, Mark Cantrell's new blogging platform and newsletter

May 4, 2023 •

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