Fellow GoNOMAD blogger Steve Hartshorne reviewed my collection of short stories, Thoughts From My Early Twenties, on his blog, Armchair Travel.

Check it out… it made me awfully proud to hear someone speak so kindly of my stories.

Remember though, Steve, Hemingway may have followed Fitzgerald around for a bit – learning all he could, no doubt – but then he took what he learned and threw it out the window and decided to go his own way – even as far as to start a literary quarrell with some of his mentors, showing them there was another way (Gertrude Stein, for example.  And he certainly takes it out on Scott Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast).

My favorite Hemingway moment: William Faulkner accuses Hemingway of “never using a word that would send a reader to the dictionary.”

Hemingway replies, “Poor Faulkner.  Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

That one still makes me smile, and although I don’t want to be Hemingway, I do want to write simply and truthfully.

If you want to read my stories, head on over to the Online Store and get yourself a copy or check out the Short Stories section.