Stephen Gold

a freelance writer based in Cotati, California
"Break free to better serve the ones you love."
music I enjoy

2/5/2007: Received the contract for my WisCon essay.
11/21/2006: Made "Joining A Cohousing Community" available as a downloadable audio file.
11/10/2006: Uploaded my "Joining A Cohousing Community" advice article. Now you can read it online.
7/13/2006: Submitted my autobiographical essay entitled "A Different Kind of Divorce: Love, Loss and Cohousing."
5/26/2006: Read an excerpt from my novella "The Fish Singer" at the WisCon 30 convention in Madison, Wisconsin.
3/13/2006: Admitted to the Speculative Literature Foundation's pilot mentorship program.
7/31/2005: Graduated from the Clarion West Writers' Workshop.

"Eleven Tips for Critiquing Stories that Offend" (essay): How to point out potentially offensive material during a story critique. (Read the essay online.)
"Fictitious Flowering Plants" (humor collection): Learn the history of such oddities as genocide weed and the baseballfruit tree. (Browse the collection on-line.)
"Comma Splices" (grammar handout): Explains how to recognize a comma splice in your writing and fix it. (Created for the North Bay Fiction Writer's Circle. Read the handout on-line.)
"Verb Power" (writing style handout): Explains how to use verbs for a strong, concise writing style. (Created for the North Bay Fiction Writer's Circle. Read the handout on-line.)

I also build and maintain websites, including:

I have a brother in Wisconsin: