The Monthly Blog-a-thon
Send to Kindle Tonight is the night of the monthly blog-a-thon for the Blogging Writers of Gilbert. It’s pretty slim attendance tonight, though. Eula is missing tonight, because her husband has a leaky...
View ArticleI Love Words!
Send to Kindle I love words. Lots and lots of words. Fancy words, everyday words, words no one has ever heard of, words that are fun to say, and ugly sounding words. I love them all. I love lots and...
View ArticleCreating The Writing Reader, or the Importance of Having a Workflow
Send to Kindle My first blog, The Writing Reader, is a work-intensive undertaking. In order to stay sane, I created a weekly workflow that makes it seem less like work and more like fun. Here’s a...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons Why Writers Should Join Toastmasters: #4 Learn How to Lead a...
Send to Kindle Toastmasters offers leadership opportunities of all sorts, from performing functions in meetings to serving on the international Board of Directors. My favorite, however, is called the...
View ArticleUltimate Blog Challenge Wrap Up and Thank You!
Send to Kindle I made it! With this post I finish the UBC successfully. It’s been a long month, and I am tired! But proud. Here’s a quick wrap-up of what I learned. If I can write a post a day for a...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons Why Writers Should Join Toastmasters: #5 Find Your Voice plus...
Send to Kindle Jeff Goins defines voice as “a unique way of communicating your message, so that people will immediately recognize your writing when they read it.” We each have a unique voice when we’re...
View ArticleWhere Do Ideas Come From?
Send to Kindle I spoke recently at Ocotillo Breakfast Club Toastmasters, and in the Q & A after the speech I was asked “Where do you get the ideas for your speeches?” Since March is International...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons Why Writers Should Join Toastmasters: #8 Surviving Critical...
Send to Kindle Your book is so popular that you’ve been on David Letterman. The critics are raving. Everything is just as you’d hoped. And then… the one star reviews start happening. What do you do? If...
View ArticleKeira Michelle Telford – Inside My Cluttered Head
Today I am honored to present a guest post by Keira Michelle Telford, the author of a 10-book series of post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novels, all centering on the lead character of Ella...
View ArticleFlash Fiction: Faerie Dance
This is a response to Prompt #794 Faerie Dance at The Writing Reader. Come, faeries, take me out of this dull house! Let me have all the freedom I have lost; Work when I will and idle when I will!...
View ArticleRedemption – Flash Fiction
Send to Kindle The coupon read “You may redeem this coupon for __________________________.” Alice looked around to see who may have dropped the coupon, but the sidewalk was empty. She thought it funny...
View ArticleI wanted to reach a center… -Mircea Eliade
Send to Kindle These thirty years, and more, that I’ve spent among exotic, barbaric, indomitable gods and goddesses, nourished on myths, obsessed by symbols, nursed and bewitched by so many images...
View ArticleThe Inner Life – E.M. Forster
Send to Kindle A man does not talk to himself quite truly — not even to himself: the happiness or misery that he secretly feels proceeds from causes that he cannot quite explain, because as soon as he...
View ArticleQuote: Trust Your Demon – Roger Zelazney
Send to Kindle Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid,...
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