If there’s one thing I never want to hear about my stories it’s that they’re “hard to finish.”
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Real Writers Top Four
One Editing tip of the day: When you write a 100,000-word novel you have made 100,000 choices. Think about it! How many of those choices were active choices. And how many of those were easy, lazy choices? Unconscious choices? Could you rewrite one of your novels and use 100,000 completely different words and tell the…
Breakfast of Champions
The English language is resplendent with homophones—words which are spelled differently but pronounced alike. By some estimates, there are more than four hundred such conundrums. Examples are the words ail and ale, bate and bait, cheap and cheep, and so on. My favorite pair is cereal and serial. A misuse of this duo gives a…
Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
For the past few years, my family and I have celebrated Independent Bookstore Day (coming up on April 29th) with a bookstore crawl. Each year, we try to incorporate a new (to us) bookshop amongst our favorites. Sadly, this year we’ll miss out on visiting a former favorite, BookBar, as it closed this past January….
Gardening and Writing — A Haphazard Comparison
I’ll add a humming bird feeder.