What Does Acceptance Really Look Like? The Time Machine Test
A few days after my son took his life in October, 2017, I wrote the following post on Facebook: “To those working on a time machine, I’m ready to go […]
Author: Tom
Thomas Allbaugh’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in a variety of journals, including Writing on the Edge, In Touch Magazine, Broken Skyline, and Relief. He is a professor of English at Azusa Pacific University, where he teaches advanced composition and creative writing. Apocalypse TV, his first novel, was published in 2017 and is available from eLectio Publishers. A chapbook of his poetry, The View from January, was released by Kelsay Books in January, 2020.
A Few Thoughts behind Worthwhile Revisions
On Sunday, I was on a panel of writers who discussed the ways that revision can lead to a bestseller. Going in, I was not sure that I could speak […]
Good Reasons for Writing Free Verse
I was at an open mic night a few years ago, just before the pandemic put a stop to such social events for a while. After I had read my […]
On Doing Your Own Research
I usually hear the claim on a news show when the pundit or journalist takes the mic out onto the street to talk to the proverbial “people on the street.” […]
A Christmas Story about Writing (not meant to be nostalgic)*
This story happened when I was in fourth grade, in 1965. My class had just come in from recess, and this was days after the snow had been falling and […]