Eclectic writer

I'm not sure how this happened but I've been chosen. Perhaps it was because I've been behind putting books up at Chapter See an...

 I don't know about you but each new release inspires me to move forward and write something new. Sometimes the enw release spurs a sequ...

 In Techniques of the Selling Writer, Dwight Swain wrote "A story is words strung onto pages." Absolutely true. To be a writer, ...

John D. MacDonald made this statement in an essay. "The writer must provide the materials with which the reader will construct bright p...

Receiving a new review on one of my books always inspires me to think about what I'm writing. I received one the other day from someone...

There's this cliche I've often heard. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Now that does take a bit of work. First you need a ...

Does the arrival of a new year inspire you? I always feel gung ho when the calendar changes to a new and unexplored year. What will happen?...

Not sure if reading good books inspires other writers but they sure do inspire me. Not that I think I can write a book as good as the ones ...

Always thrills me when someone leaves a review of one of my books. Problem is this doesn't happen all that often. I meet people who have...

I've heard it said "Bears hibernate in the winter." I understand their metabolism goes way down and they enter a coma like st...

Years ago, I wrote poetry, some of it not bad and some not good. I wasn't writing poetry to set myself up as a poet but to hone my use o...

Does writing those two words The End inspire you? This always does to me. For finishing a story sends me off searching for the next one to ...

My father was a steelworker who finished high school at night but he was a man who loved books and writing. When I published my first book, ...

Three weeks ago, I began an exercise regime. Before that I started walking and found that boring, boring. Then the heat wave came and walkin...

This week I'm being inspired by the number of my books on sale for a limited time. I would be more inspired if the readers would leave m...

I've used the five ordinary senses to show how they can help a story, characters and setting become more vivid and alive. Those of us wh...

For me the end of the summer heat is an inspiration, not only for my writing but for other parts of my life. I now can leave the house witho...

I belong to a critique group. Some of the members keep writing every day while others don't and they wonder why they never have anythin...

Was reading an essay by Sidney Sheldon and one thing struck me as interesting. He began writing scripts for movies and drama for the stage. ...

I belong to a critique group and we read our selections aloud rather than pass pages around. Yes, reading can find some mistakes and see som...