125 Very Short Shorts
You might remember that last year I participated in the Twitter #vss365 challenge. For the challenge, I had to write a 280-character-or-fewer story every day using a given prompt word. By December 31, I...
Tagged: reading
The Truth about Author Earnings
The entertainment industry presents us with two very different ideas about writers. Either they are struggling, living in a drafty shack on Ramen noodles while pounding out their novels on an old typewriter because...
The Unique Power of Reading, Part 2
Last time I talked about the power of reading to communicate with the dead. Well, better put, to have the dead communicate with us. Though the author may have shed the chains of mortality...
The Unique Power of Reading, Part 1
Most people in the world can read. About 98% of Americans are literate to some extent. Heck, you’re doing it right now! Unless you just came to look at the pictures. And if you...
Some Thoughts on Reading and Writing
A while ago, there was a discussion on Janet Reid’s blog around how much you should read in your chosen genre before you write that genre.* The received wisdom is 100 books. Yes, 100...
Book Review: THE EDUCATION OF DIXIE DUPREE by Donna Everhart
Eleven-year-old Dixie is the youngest child of Evie and Charles Dupree, who live in Perry County, Alabama. She and her brother AJ like to climb trees and do the normal things kids in rural...
Book Review: VITA BREVIS by Ruth Downie
Disclaimer: A publicist at Bloomsbury sent this book to me thinking I might enjoy it. She did not ask me to review it, and did not make receipt of the book conditional on any...
A to Z Catch Up #3
April is just flying by with less than a week to go on the 2016 April A-to-Z Challenge. If you don’t know what that’s about, click the link to find out. Those of you...
Links and Stuff
This week, I play with mirrors, pick up birds, and get lost in translation. But first, it’s March already, my birthday month (search the blog to find out exactly when–I’m sure I mentioned it...
Links and Stuff: The 1,000th Blog Post Edition
Yes, ladies and gentlemen–this is it. My 1,000th blog article! That’s a lot of blogging. I know there are people out there who have been blogging longer and no doubt clocked up thousands of pages....
