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…

6 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…

7 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…

8 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…

8 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…

8 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…

9 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…

10 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…

10 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…

10 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…

11 years ago