"11/11" always bothered me because I didn't feel I captured how I felt about my growth as a Veteran. So, I broke it, and it came out better

Being a Veteran was a little bit of a different journey. I look back and realize how immature and entitled I felt. I outgrew that bullshit.

This time, we could go up to 1000 words. It was also due October 30th, so what better time than to write about my favorite holiday?

A revised version of this essay is the first piece I submitted to a publisher looking for flash nonfiction. It was rejected.

A "flash essay" is a very short, concise essay that focuses on a single, impactful moment or idea..it started with experimentals.

For my final memoir essay, I debated point-of-view changes. I considered using the second person; however, I decided on the third person.

When I was ready to write my second memoir, I decided to experiment again. I went the route of the epistolary...

This first memoir, "When God Called My Marker," was written in less than a week since I volunteered to be one of the first three...

In the case of this story, the story wasn't revised as drastically as I have with others, but I still made some dramatic changes overall.

This story is adapted from the Grimm’s fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.” This adaption is set in the 2010s in Anywhere, USA..

A bronze sword thrust violently into the air, glistening in the radiance of four tubes of 60-watt fluorescence.

The assignment post-workshop was to take the critiques and make substantial changes to the story...I accepted that challenge.

The assignment was to write a story where the protagonist gained something but came at a cost. This was my pre-workshop story.

In this class, we wrote a short, mid, and long scene within specified word counts. These are raw writing pieces, far from polished products.