Plot like your life depends on it:
I’d like to raise a salute to the crew of USAirways Flight 1549 (Miracle on the Hudson). Here are the names of these five brave men and women: Captain Sully Sullenberger, First Officer Jeff Skiles,...
View ArticleA Labor of Love…
Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life. –Johnny Depp Huff – huff – huff – Blow! Huff – huff...
View ArticleBefore The First Written Word — Read, Read, Read!
More than half the adult population in America say they believe they have at least one good book in them. No doubt, many of them have been tempted by the dream of writing a great romance, historical,...
View ArticleThe Written Word — Mining for Ideas
“It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.” -Joan Baez . . ....
View ArticleInterview with Author, David Rocklin
Strategies for getting and keeping a qualified Agent. “Taking the Long Way Home” with foreign publication. Hello, everyone. Let’s welcome our guest today, David Rocklin, the author of “The...
View ArticleLove What You Write & Believe in Yourself…
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character...
View Article“Happy are they whom the Muses love.” – Hesiod
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! (Let The Good Times Roll!) Think about it. The incalculable hours you’ve invested in writing, day after day, month after month. The tedious revisions....
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day!
It would be impossible to say all the things that describe what a Mother is, and what her impact is in our lives. One year, for my mother, I had my children write down why they loved their Grammy. We...
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