Reading Time: < 1 minute Memorial Day weekend has always perplexed and frustrated me. The Monday holiday law turned a day of remembrance into “unofficial start of summer.” Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 18
Reading Time: 2 minutes If I had treated my first year as a freelance writer like a real business, I would have seen that the end of the first quarter was approaching a crisis. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1979: Another diversion
Reading Time: < 1 minute Although this series may appear as yet another rabbit hole I’ve fallen down in my quest to finish a project — any project — it has several benefits. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 11
Reading Time: 2 minutes An author and educator friend likes this “story arc.” I hadn’t thought of a journal/memoir as a story, but I suppose the best ones are. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 10
Reading Time: 2 minutes Coincidentally, (or was it serendipity again?) one of those friends contacted me today through this blog for the first time. A fellow writer, she had a question. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 8
Reading Time: 2 minutes Max Bialystock: So you’re an accountant, huh?
Leo Bloom : Yes, I am.
Max Bialystock : Then account for yourself! Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 4
Reading Time: 2 minutes Will any of this actually happen? Or will our hero be dashed against the rocks as real life intervenes? Tune in every weekend for Season 2! Continue reading Week in Review: Season 2, Episode 1
Reading Time: 2 minutes It took me nearly half a century to write and rewrite the play, which became a book about writing a play and how perfectionism and procrastination are this writer’s worst enemy. Continue reading Year in Review 2022 (Week 52)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many of my year-end journal entries and most of my year-end columns for the newspaper started with a “good riddance” lede. This was the first. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1978: Year in Review
Reading Time: 2 minutes Research for my book and on the history of Bubble Wrap continues. Could inventor Marc Chavannes have had something the Nazis wanted? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 44
