Okay, I didn’t do it right. I was supposed to add the names of those who would carry on this blog chain of novels in progress, and I didn’t. Because no one answered my email requesting their posts. Then Ruth Walker emailed me to ask if I’d like to...
Dale Long, my fellow Write Brain critique group colleague and Novel Approach alumni writes an engaging blog on writing, family and issues that bug the hell out of him. He has a feature there called, The Author’s Voice, wherein he interviews writers at the...
One wise friend made his New Year’s resolution to write at least five hundred words a day; about two pages, double spaced. I’ve never been one to make resolutions, because I hate to be disappointed, especially with myself, but this year a resolution of...
Recently WRITEtoDONE held a contest for the top ten blogs for writers. What caught my eye in the email announcing the winners was the criteria: Initial qualification: A site must have been nominated more than once by multiple individuals. If someone nominated more...
This post will be brief. Every time I check my stats the “Top Searches” field always has these search requests: famous people in 1973, writers organization, philip seymour hoffman, cool things from 1971, writers images. Really. Sometimes it includes Jim...
I’m doing what I’m supposed to do as a writer in these modern times: that tweeting thing and that blogging thing. The blogging thing I pretty much have a handle on. The tweeting thing? I feel like a little kid again, rushing after my older siblings,...