Editing is not fun

I just read a blog where the author of the blog said that editing is fun for her and should be fun for you. Someone should lock this person up, for their own good and ours. Writing can be fun. You enter a world where things happen, it’s not boring and if it is...

Don’t be a Lonely Writer

  Writing can be lonely. It’s just you and your thoughts. Those thoughts can be a world or a universe full of people, but they are all in your head. The other day I was barreling down the highway on the  way to a meeting of my critique group. John Tesh was...

The Roomba and the Writer

What does a Roomba and a writer have in common? Something that is way out of a writers comfort zone, advertising. In a ZDNet article dated June 15, 2018 Colin Barker mentioned that in 2003 the iRobot company built 250,000 robots. After black Friday 2003 they still had...

Are You Ready

This weekend I participated, with a group of fellow amateur radio operators, in an event called Field Day. Field Day is where you take your emergency equipment out and contact other amateur operators using that equipment. To increase emergency preparedness points are...

Looking for ideas in all the right places

I recently read an article titled Looking For Ideas In All the Wrong Places. I was disappointed. This article did give you places to look, but only three or four tired examples. The article mentioned a writer using Jane Austin’s Emma for the foundation of Fast Times...