Editor’s Note: We’re currently reading James Hagerty’s book Yours Truly: An Obituary Writer’s Guide to Telling Your Story, and it made us recall an excellent (and very funny) post on this same subject by WAG’s very own Connie Morrison. Reprinted here, with the author’s permission, is her post from … Read More
I notice more and more—how shall I put it?—dead people have pre-written their own obituaries. This may be a morbid subject for some, but when you reach a certain age, you know what is coming and you recognize it could be any time. Any minute, really. So why not write … Read More
When I first started writing, I thought point of view meant my opinion of something. After I posted my first story on a writing website, I was quickly enlightened. A critiquer told me I jumped around in my point of view. Point of view? What was that? With a Google … Read More
Need a therapist? Blood pressure high? Stress and anxiety over the top? Forget the doctor and volunteer to be considered for a position in WAG, your writers’ organization. It’s a proven fact that volunteers live longer and stay healthier, so when you see that important question on the WAG application, … Read More