Capturing the Soul of the Subject

August 22, 2011

My wife and I live in Southern Maryland near Amish communities. Amish are wonderful, hard-working people, but resistant to embrace …

Zero Drafts and Unfinished Business

August 10, 2011

Fiction writers can be divided into two major groups: outliners and discovery writers. Outliners know the beginning, middle and end …

August 8, 2011

According to, “Wolves, Humans, and the Myth,” by Jill Missal on Alaska.net, the expression, “keeping the wolf from the door,” …

August 3, 2011

Striving to make high quality work is good, but wanting it so perfect that the work never gets made is …

July 8, 2011

I’m Todd Vinson, engineer, podcast producer, workshop instructor, writer, and maker of fine art currently based out of Maryland. This …