Joanna Young at Confident Writing has challenged us to write about My Love Affair with Writing. She said: It might be a love affair that’s lasted many years, a brief flame of passion or the heartbreak of unrequited love. My love affair with writing began nearly a half century ago, but it’s been an on-again, … Read more
The Writers Cafe at Grow Your Writing Business is reopening February 29. I look forward to the weekly opportunity to wind down, network with other writers, learn from each other, and enjoy chatting with writing friends. Hope the place is crowded as we welcome Yvonne and the Cafe back next Friday. [tags]Writers Cafe[/tags]
The Taylors have received the first review for On the Wings of the Wind: A Journey to Faith. Carolyn R. Scheidies, a wonderful Christian author and an excellent reviewer, posted the review at Author’s Choice Reviews. I like her ending comment: An interesting story, high in Scriptural context, and personal anecdotes. [tags]On the Wings of … Read more
I didn’t intend to write a series on magical thinking. I planned just one post on the subject, my entry in What I Learned From People. However, this has been a learning experience all on its own. Because I used words that many people consider positive in a negative context, my message apparently didn’t get … Read more
In my earlier posts about what I call magical thinking, I said magical thinkers have a sense of entitlement and believe whatever they want should be provided by someone or something outside themselves. If we had been born without limbs, most of us would feel we should be cared for and supported by family, the government … Read more
Thanks for Kristen King at Inkthinker for pointing out the week of February 10-16 is Freelance Writers Appreciation Week. Kristen invites comments from her readers on what they appreciate about the freelance writing life. I said: Among the many things I appreciate about the freelance writing life are being able to work from home on … Read more
In the last post, I talked about magical thinkers, people with a sense of entitlement who believe because they want something, they should have it and who expect someone or something else (God, the government, society …) to provide what they feel they deserve. Now, I’m going to bring the subject back to writing. My … Read more
When I worked for the state employment commission as part of the federal government’s War on Poverty in the 1970s, I encountered some … different, interesting , unusual … characters. Our clients were “hard-core unemployed;” some turned out to be unemployable. The program was a collaboration between several governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations contracted to … Read more
Phil Davis of Authors on the Net has conducted a series of interviews with me about self-publishing. Part 4 concludes the series. You’ll want to listen in order, so if you’ve missed earlier interviews, listen to them first. I hope you find the Self-Publishing Primer and the podcasts helpful. [tags]self-publishing[/tags]
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I use auto-correct in Word while writing the first draft even though I don’t edit until the first draft is complete. Auto-correct gives you options to correct as you type – automatically capitalizing the first word in a sentence and the names of days, for example. Then there’s … Read more