On Writing

Life during Plague Time.

Life in California went topsy-turvy on Marth 19th, 2020, when Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay at home order to…

4 years ago

Write Like You Mean it.

Writing is a calling. People write for different reasons and there is no better time in history to be a…

5 years ago

The Corrections: Hemingway Editor scores Nobel Prize winning author’s prose as “poor”

I am a word nerd. I love to geek out on weird and wonderful applications like Scrivener, Microsoft Word, Grammarly…

6 years ago

Writing in the Age of Insanity

I flipped on the news early Monday morning, and there was a linguist analyzing what had emerged from Trump's mouth…

6 years ago

Raymond Chandler on What Haunts the Reader.

“A long time ago when I was writing for pulps, I put into a story a line like ‘he got…

6 years ago

Election 2016: Things are going to get Weird.

Writers and artists, by their nature, are sensitive. We spend years building up feathery radar as delicate as moth antennae…

7 years ago

Prince: The Essential Reading List

The first time I saw Prince was on an album cover for Dirty Mind in the 80's. The image of…

8 years ago

Bowie’s top 100 books – the complete list – David Bowie Latest News

  Originally posted on www.davidbowie.com “Lend us a book we can read up alone” It’s likely that most people reading…

8 years ago

What Writers can Learn from Bruce Lee.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one— Bruce Lee What can…

8 years ago

The Traditional Publishing Industry Is Killing Books | Opinion | teleSUR English

An interesting opinion piece by Tamara Pearson, author of the novel, The Butterfly Prison (Open Books, 2015). She is an…

9 years ago