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 […]
This morning I was working on my daily 15 minutes devoted to the realization that I have no logic skills whatsoever, otherwise known as solving a Sudoku puzzle, when it occurred to me that my pencils needed sharpening. Now I'm bad enough at Sudoku without having also to contend with blurry-pointed pencils. The boxes in […]
So, I wrote a post about Michael Phelps last week and how he used rejection and ridicule (who's laughing now, twitty teenagers who made fun of him? Huh? Huh?) to spur himself on. I mentioned that perhaps we writers could take a page from ol' Michael's book and use that same technique when we get […]
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This is an exciting day for my friend Robin Gideon. Aspen Mountain Press is releasing her novel,Silky Sins: Cassandra's Story. Its a sizzling contemporary erotic romance and you can download it in ebook format and get it immediately. Robin is absolutely amazing–she has an incredible list of books coming out over the next few months, […]
Michael Phelps is writing a book. I'm guessing, just a wild stab, that somewhere near Baltimore a ghostwriter hit the jackpot and will spend the next month hanging on every word Phelps says. They are getting this baby out in time for Christmas, so its obvious Phelps is not going to write it himself. The […]
I adore Michael Phelps almost as much as I love his mother. I think I just love seeing the two of them together because it reminds me of my relationship with my own adored son, Lewis. There's just something so unique about that mother-son relationship. Of course, the mother-daughter relationship is special and unique also […]
I'm back home in Portland, and its hot. Like over 100 hot. Every day. I do not like this. My office is upstairs and as we all know heat rises and hot damn it gets hot up there. My computer does not like it either. It tells me this by bluescreening and then fading quickly […]
