I've just finished making a pan of lasagne for my son's birthday dinner tomorrow. (Brief aside: on Twitter, the spell check wanted me to spell it lasagne, which I thought was correct. Here on Typepad, the spelling gods insist it is lasagna. But I sticking to my e ending. I like e endings.) I'm sort […]
I promised a run-down of the recent orientation weekend my partner Terry Price and I put together for the Writer's Loft, at MTSU in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Terry and I took over the program last March, (geez, it seems much longer ago than that) and so this was the first orientation on our watch. We were […]
I cannot tell a lie, because you have no doubt noticed, but I am a blogging slacker. Two weeks ago I headed to Nashville for the Writer's Loft fall orientation. This was a big to-do because it was the first actual orientation that my partner Terry and I planned since we took over the program. […]
By the time you read this, I'll be in Nashville. And even though I have learned how to send a post to this site from my Centro, just in case the giant Centro God in the sky deems that feature unavailable this week, I've collected a few of my favorite Wordstrumpet links for your reading […]
What's the difference between a novel and a story? A story is shorter. Funny joke. I know, I know, don't quit my day job as a writer to to become a comedian, right? The truth of the matter is, a short story is a lot shorter than a novel, and that makes all the difference. […]
Yesterday I cleverly wrote a post on my new Centro phone and sent it to be published on Typepad from my backyard. I know this is old news for those of you who have had Blackberries and Iphones for ever, but it is a major step forward for me. I'm on the road to LA […]
I'm reading a novel published by a smaller press. Sometimes the reason why novels don't get picked up by a big publishing house (or picked up at all) is a mystery. But in this particular case I have some thoughts. Its really a very good novel in many ways–compelling subject, lots of conflict, interesting situation. […]
Today's guest post comes from my Welsh friend Derek Ayre, hypnotherapist, musician, and writer extraordinaire. Visit his music site here. (My spell checker goes nuts over his British spelling, but I like it so I've left it in.) Writing About Music by Derek Ayre Music is one of the great loves of my life and […]
I don't necessarily agree with them, okay? Google Adsense puts them up and you know Google and their spiders, they crawl around and pick up keywords and choose ads accordingly. If you have Gmail, you know how creepily accurate their spiders are–whatever the topic of your email conversation is, the ads are tailored accordingly. So […]
Not to be partisan here, since this is not a blog about politics, but I just learned that Jill Biden, the wife of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden in case you hadn't guessed, teaches writing. She teaches writing at a community college and she has mad plans to keep a diary about her experiences on the […]
