Here you can find short stories, articles, presentations and anything else I’ve written on a freelance or one-time basis for others.
It's nice when you like your day job and someone asks if you'd like to talk about it. So, when Writers Chat asked if I'd like to give a virtual presentation about Search Engine Optimization (i.e. making Google like your work) I didn't have to think long. I'm relatively new to SEO Editing (freelanced as …
Continue reading A Presentation: SEO Basics for Web and Print
If you enjoyed my previous posts about the play Macbeth - the essay I contributed to An Unexpected Journal, where you can find it online or in print - you can hear me present about this week. I will be presenting at the Inkling Folk Fellowship, giving my essay and perhaps some new insights on …
Continue reading Something This Way Comes…. Listen to Me Talk about the Scottish Play
During the summer of 2022, something I never expected fell into my lap. I had contacted the Owen Barfield Literary Estate about getting permission to use a photograph for an article about Owen Barfield. For those who don't know, Owen Barfield was one of C..S. Lewis' oldest friends (they met when they were both students …
Continue reading Owen Barfield’s Grandson, Charles Williams, and Anthroposophy
About a decade ago, I went through a season of writing poems. It was instigated by the fact I was looking into college scholarships and discovered a website that gave scholarships for slam poetry. I wrote at least 10 poems and shared them in various places before I realized that the things I was writing …
Continue reading How I Wrote a Medieval Poem Satire and Even Got It Published
Last week, I shared an article I initially wrote for a Fellowship & Fairydust Christmas collection. While that article didn't make the final cut, one article did, a memory of listening to Christmas music out of my parent's stereo system. This being the Christmas season, Fellowship & Fairydust decided to republish the article on their …
I wrote in one of my last posts about my funny journey from knowing barely anything about Shakespeare to writing a 6,000ish word essay on Macbeth movies for the latest issue of An Unexpected Journal. On December 17, 2022, I got to take part in a conversation with the other contributors about their essays, as …
This is a lot more leg than I’m comfortable showing, I thought as I switched into my work uniform. It’s Christmas 2018. I am working as a waiter at a Christmas feast put on at a castle in Colorado built by a Civil War general. My uniform was breeches, calf-high white socks, leather shoes, a …
I am not by any standard a Shakespeare expert. I had some exposure to the Bard in eighth grade English when we all sat down to watch via Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film As You Like It... without having read the play. Given that this movie shifts the material in some surprising ways (moving the setting …
I don't post a lot of humor on my website, though I've dabbled, posting pieces like "Worst Descriptions of Classic Speculative Fiction Books." Recently though, a writer's group I belong to challenged each other to write Christmas satire pieces. Around that time, I accidentally volunteered to write an article about Christmas Movies on Netflix in …
Author's Note: I wrote this Christmas article in November 2021 when I was assembling some pieces to send to Fellowship & Fairydust for its Winter 2021 newsletter. It presented an interesting opportunity to take a review I'd originally written in 2012 for a short-lived high school newspaper and expand it into something else. A different …
G. Connor Salter 