The first step toward being a writer is to hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm. ~ Dorothea Brande Fledgling writers sometimes need an attitude adjustment. And sometimes more experienced writers do, too. Otherwise, why would bestselling author Hilary Mantel confess that she reads Dorothea Brande’s … Read More
Just write! Just do it! That’s what they say. But who are they? I’d need more than ten fingers to count all the names. But for me, one name stands out among those many pundits. And that’s Brenda Ueland. “Who?” you ask. She doesn’t have a website. No Twitter handle. … Read More
ANACHRONISM. A neglect or falsification, whether wilfully or otherwise, of strict chronological relation. Anachronisms may be committed in a great variety of ways, e.g., in painting, by representing members of the Holy Family in the costumes of the period at which the painter lived, as in many … Read More
Sometimes My Muse Kicks Me to the Curb. I’ve always been a writer. And it’s been both a blessing and a curse. For a long time, I ran from it as if the Hound of Heaven were after me. When I finally gave in and submitted to the call to take up … Read More