FOMO has me in its clutches. Or tentacles might be a better word. For those who aren’t up on the current slang (or slang from six months ago, which now dates me as being really old), FOMO is the FEAR OF MISSING OUT. I have it. I’ve been infected. The only thing that will save…
Category: General Interest
Announcing the 2018 IWOTY and WOTY Finalists!
2018 WOTY and IWOTY Finalists! Looking forward to learning more about the Writer of the Year (WOTY) and Independent Writer of the Year (IWOTY) finalists?? Coming this month on the blog – learn more about each of the finalists in their author interviews! Stay tuned! Voting for WOTY and IWOTY starts in May! Curtis Craddock…
Writing and Dreaming
I’m not a morning person in any sense. I stagger around for a while, lucky if I can manage to feed the pets and make some tea. Then I sit down at the computer. Even though I’m still groggy and half-functional, amazingly, I can write. In fact, it’s my best writing time. I believe it’s…
“DON’T JUST DO SOMETHING, STAND THERE!”
There is a saying, “Doing anything is better than doing nothing.” For the indecisive and deliberate decision maker, this means the longer you take to make a decision, the more likely the decision is going to be taken out of your hands, made for you by fate or the actions of others, and not likely…
Max Headroom
Did you know the average person has 50,000 thoughts per day? Some researchers put that number as high as 70,000. That’s thoughts. Not words. Say, four or five or six words per thought. 250,000 words? Per day? String ‘em all together and you’d have a couple of books’ worth. Per day. Good book? Probably not….