This is a funny confession, but technology inspires me both creatively, and spiritually. I used to live in a tiny bubble that was comprised of my immediate neighborhood, my city, occasional forays to other cities. Now, thanks to technology, I’m connected to a vast web of people, through my blog, email, and social networking. I’ve […]
Big Word Hunting, Part Two: The Thesaurus as Roget Intended It (This series began yesterday with a post on Strong Verbs) Since I have become a big game verb hunter, I have remembered how much I adore my thesaurus. It is Roget's International Thesaurus, with a copyright of 1977, and I have no idea where […]
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 […]
You may have noticed the appearance of the above button on my sidebar. In case you are wondering what it is, I will tell you. A beautiful young woman and her husband were in a terrible plane crash earlier this month. The crash left a third passenger on the plane dead, and Stephanie Nielson and […]
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 […]
I’ve been doing so much of it and writing about it, so I’ve updated my Ghostwriting page and turned it into a FAQ. Check it out here, and spread the word if you know anybody who needs a ghostwriter.
I just posted the first interview on my companion site, Bookstrumpet, by the wonderful Lori Eads. It is with the author Sonia Singh, and it is worth checking out because she makes some interesting comments about writing, the writing process, and, specifically, her writing process. She talks about how when first she starts writing, she […]
Things are a bit wonky around the old Wordstrumpet homestead. A couple months ago, the wonderful Jen at Typepad contacted me and asked if I would like a report on how I might update and enhance my blog. I ignored her at first, because I thought that this would cost me money. When she explained […]
