It’s been a few years since I dragged out my bottomless bag of (lost and found) online articles and tidbits. Read on for: a list of “bad” stories to avoid if you want to get published, a travel calculator to help…
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Fiction Writing Terms: Active Verbs, Author Intrusion, Backstory
Every occupation has its own set of unique terms and slang. Musicians talk about riffs while machinists talk about welds. To a sailor, a floor is a deck and a wall is a bulkhead. And writers need to know about…
10 Tips to Survive a Relationship with a Writer
Writers Write is an organization based in Johannesburg, South Africa whose motto is “write to communicate.” They have a great website that offers advice, inspiration, and instruction. Check out the Writers Write About page and the link to the above graphic “How to survive a…
Tagged with: advice to non-writers, support your local writer, Writers Write
Posted in The Writing Life
Posted in The Writing Life
On Writing: Don’t Hoard What Seems Good
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a better place in the book, or for…
An Update Long Overdue
In case you didn’t notice, I was mostly absent from this website in 2016 and 2017. My mom once told me people don’t notice things about us the way we think they do. Unless we have a button unbuttoned, a zipper…
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