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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Parent/Child Relationship

Various conversations among us here in the land of Blogit, along with the progress of my own life, and an article I read today that suggests adult children become estranged from their parents because of the way they were raised... all lead me to offer this prompt: Parents, once children, have... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Warm and sunny day in mid-winter...

What does this inspire in you? Poem, haiku, story in prose, recollection...? Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Good books, bad books

Every book is useful to a writer. A well-written book demonstrates technique that works. A poorly-written one shows very clearly what not to do. The one I have just finished reading and reviewing for Today's Visions Hot Reads is a light-hearted fiction that is a parade of one loopy character after... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Writing the worthy book

Since starting the Today's Visions project, I have to spend a great deal of time reading Indie books, and writing reviews of the best of them. I read a lot that don't get reviewed. They don't because they simply aren't anything I can recommend to any reader. Today's Visions makes a point of... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thank you and dammit!

...to you who have acquired and read HEAT and offered me useful and generous feedback privately! It is now available through Amazon both as a printed book ($7.99) and a Kindle version (1.99). There is a place on that page where you can give a review and recommendation. I hope you'll do that, it is... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The book is launched!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1937108325?tag=ammbt-20 That's where to find it on Amazon. Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

I, me, us, we...

Okay... When is it "I" and when is it "me"? And why oh why do even journalists get this wrong when it is actually so easy to get it right? Singulars we get right, usually. But add in someone else, as in "my friend and I" or "my friend and me" and it all goes wonky. The grammatical explanation is... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Common and familiar doesn't make it correct.

And since when is 'alright' a word? 'Already' is a word. 'Almost' is a word. Alright' is not a word. It is 'all right' and means just that. 'Already' means something different from 'all ready' and 'all most' is just silly, and is not the same as 'almost.' It is not all right to use 'alright'... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Grain vs Chaff

I am reading books by Indie authors these days, sorting out the best I can find to recommend for those readers who like a good read but are skeptical of self-published books. That skepticism is not entirely misplaced when anyone can publish anything with virtually no quality control in the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 3, 2014

The wind is rising...

Even with windows and door closed tight, I hear it racing through the trees, rattling the leaves along the ground... I think how cozy it is to hear the wind rushing around outside, when I am warm in my bed, inside. I think of how the chill and bluster insidiously creeps into all the gaps at neck and... Sign in to see full entry.

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