Are You a Candle or a Mirror?

Warning:  this is a no-edit zone…On awakening, like everyone else, I have my rituals. One of them is to read from the Bible and then to pull a quote for the day and reflect on how the two–the reading and the quote–interrelate. The quote for today...

Welcome!

I’m new here and finding my feet.  Please bear with me as I learn to navigate my way.  I look forward to chatting about writing with you.  One thing.  I edit articles, books and other writing, but I’m declaring this blog a no-edit zone.  My version of...

Baffled! What Does He Mean?

I received a note with the subject line: HELP! I’M BAFFLED. WHAT DOES HE MEAN? Now who can resist stopping to read a note referenced like that? So I did–stop, that is–and read the note. It was from an author who had received a rejection from an agent. In...

BAFFLED. WHAT DOES HE MEAN?

I received a note with the subject line: HELP! I’M BAFFLED. WHAT DOES HE MEAN? Now who can resist stopping to read a note referenced like that? So I did–stop, that is–and read the note. It was from an author who had received a rejection from an agent. In...

BIRTHDAY WISH–AND HOPES

Birthdays are special days–and at times in our lives when we’ve thought we wouldn’t have any or many more of them, we learn a new appreciation for them. Actually, it’s a new appreciation for life itself, but the day is the perfect day to acknowledge and...

Character: CONTENTMENT

When writing, we don’t often think specifically about a character’s contentment. There’s a reason for that: we’re in the conflict business. That, conflict, not contentment, is the spine of our novels. But contentment isn’t the same thing as a lack of conflict. It is...
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