I realized last month, when contemplating the fact that 2003 marks RMFW’s 40th anniversary, that I’ve been writing for 40 years. Summer of 1983. I switched jobs. I went from newspaper reporter to working as a television producer for a PBS news show. I started flying around the country working on stories. And, during all…
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Researching a Genre
If there’s one thing I never want to hear about my stories it’s that they’re “hard to finish.”
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…
Gardening and Writing — A Haphazard Comparison
I’ll add a humming bird feeder.