While you’re waiting for a new post HERE, let me direct you to the one I wrote for Joyful Jubilant Learning. The month’s theme is about Communication, and since today would have been my grandfather’s birthday, I wrote about communicating between generations. Please come over and read it!
Heroes
I’m not one of those Luddite purists that screams that Television is Evil and rots your brain. When it’s good, it can be very good, indeed. (The West Wing, anyone?) And even half-way decent television can be entertaining, with a good story, and be a fun distraction for an hour.…
People Are Analog
Today, in the U.S., all televisions are officially switching from analog to digital transmission, forever turning the page on the tradition of television signals broadcast, for free, through the air.* In many ways, this is a seamless change–most people will never even notice–but the very IDEA is one that I…
How Not to Get Hired as a Writer
Last time, we talked about the ways you could preserve your anonymity by keeping your precious novel untouched and unpublished, but what if you don’t write novels? What if you write other things, like articles, press releases, and other types of non-fiction? How can you make sure that they stay…
How NOT to Get Your Novel Published
I’m practically an expert on this subject because, even though I’ve had a completed manuscript since the late 90s, I remain an unpublished novelist. I know, it’s an impressive feat, right? I bet you are just dying to know all my tricks so that you, too, can be an Undiscovered…
Write What You Want to Read
Truly, it’s not something I talk about often, but I love writing fiction. Ironic, I know, because I don’t do it very often. I write non-fiction a lot. All the time. Blog posts. Emails at work. Notes to friends. Marketing pieces. Comments on blogs. Pretty much everything is non-fiction. Facts…
Putting Together the Pieces
Do you know what my favorite part of writing fiction is? Putting the pieces together. See, the best fiction … heck, the best writing … starts with a single germ of an idea. Something that sparks. Something that sets off a chain reaction. If you’re lucky, that one thing is…
Is What You Write More Important than How You Write it?
Write the Way You Talk You have heard this “rule,” haven’t you? It’s all the rage these days. Internet gurus tell their initiates that all they need to do to gain thousands of readers or sell gazillions of widgets is to simply Write the Way You Talk. They insist that…
More Guesting
I’ve got a guest post up at Joanna’s Confident Writing today. Go on over and read it! You know, so Joanna won’t think we’ve let the place fall down around her ears while she’s away…
Social Media 101
Hey, look at that … I have a guest post over at SocMedia101.com. This site, if you don’t know, comes from the brilliant minds of Julie Roads and Ron Miller and is devoted to helping people (especially new people) navigate the waters of the social media river. Confused about Twitter?…