In my previous two posts I talked about securing your data by backing up your personal computer(s) and your website so that you can recover quickly in case of a technical disaster. But aside from hardware failures, what can happen to your website? About 40% of the Internet runs on WordPress. This makes it an…
Eighteen months ago, when I became Managing Editor for the literary journal The Write City Magazine, I got 1-2 submissions daily in my in-box. This year that number has doubled. Perhaps it’s due to the pandemic and writers having more time. Perhaps more people are trying their hand at fiction and starting with short stories….
As I searched for topics for this month’s blog, this article captured my attention. “In essence, the best Genre Fiction contains great writing, with the goal of telling a captivating story to escape from reality. Literary Fiction is comprised of the heart and soul of a writer’s being, and is experienced as an emotional journey…
We humans aren’t good at seeing our own flaws, especially in our writing. When we look at something we wrote, we know exactly what we intended to say. So when we read the words back to ourselves—get this—it makes perfect sense to us! Our brain automatically fills in any gaps, ignores the hiccups, even glosses…
So you’re sitting there in front of your laptop looking at a blank screen. You can’t seem to get yourself to write the next line. Or . . . You’ve set aside this day to write. The friends and family have been shooed away and the phone has been turned off. You sit down to…