Update From a Messed Up Life
There are few things in life which completely halt everything, occasionally your breath or heart. Serious illness, death of a close...
Hey, Mike Rowe...
Hey, Mike Rowe, an entire article that actually agrees with you... and the link was on the top of the homepage on Yahoo! as if it's "new"...
Word Clouds: A Whole New Way to Find Overused Words
In order to keep my teaching license, I am required to take (pay for) 6 credit hours before the license expiration date. I haven't left...
To Fix Education: Teach the Adults.
After my regular classes today, I drove over to the rehab where I teach on Saturdays, and got to tell another one of my students that he...
What Authors Really Need from Readers
There are a lot of different kinds of readers...Wait...What? A reader is a reader...right? Um. No. And yes. A reader *hopefully* reads...
A Reason, A Season, or A Lifetime
God puts people in your life for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime. Sometimes you are the teacher and sometimes you are the student....
Why does the word "Brand" matter to me, I'm an author?
You are not just an author, you are a business. Authors are natural recluses. Writing isn't a team effort. (Even if you are co-writing,...
The End! ...or is it? HEA vs HFN vs Cliffhanger vs Full Stop Writing
This particular topic has been bugging me for months, and not just because I review. While my review list is five books a month, I read...
And Now...Editing.
Being a teacher of writing, who comes into daily contact with less than stellar writers, the single most important thing I teach them is...
How Do You Start Writing?
This is a direct response to a couple of comments on my Instagram feed...because there are just so many answers. One of the many...