“You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.” ~Doris Lessing   I think every writer has entertained the fantasy of...

Some of the best road trip decisions I’ve ever made have been to drive past the fast-food chain stores and pull into a somewhat well-worn...

“I would say to get the character in your mind. Once he is in your mind, and he is right, and he’s true, then he does the work himself....

“To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.” The author wasn’t talking about writing, but he could...

What role should profanity play in fiction writing? You can find an “expert” to share whatever opinion you hold. Should you search for...

"In life, there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and...

Just recently, I’ve heard a lot about the progression of Artificial Intelligence, and it seems that it has apparently progressed to such...

Well, I’ve done my first book fair/signing. Was it everything I expected? Yes and no. I wouldn’t deem the event as a major success, but...

In my last post, I talked about organizing a book fair/ open house for a nonprofit. I told about all the hard work that went into it, the...

A writer has other duties to perform to help in their success. A book doesn’t sell if the reading audience isn’t aware of it. Authors and...

I’ve been organizing a book fair and I realize it’s a lot like writing a book. RESEARCH Both writing and fundraising have research in...

In the dark ages, we would drag a large rock from the cave, find a fallen tree trunk, and balance it on the stone. One person would sit...

What constitutes good writing? I asked the search engines and, as they are wont to do, they came up with pages and pages of answers. As I...

I thought it may be of interest to share a little back story about the creation of New Perspectives. The idea for the novel came into...

St John the Beloved once wrote that if all the things Jesus did were written down that the world could not contain all the books that...

C.S. Lewis wrote a book with the same title as this post. In a way, it is the inspiration for the post. Lewis’s idea of joy encompassed...

If the sight of two men emptying a septic tank makes you wonder if there’s a body in there, you might be a writer. Writers live for...

“At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art. Then life will find its very existence from the arts.”  ~Fyodor Dostoevsky I...

There are many articles in this blog that discuss technique as an author. However, as a writer, there are many types of pursuit other...

I’m a pantser, that is I write by the seat of my pants, an idea comes my way and I just run with it. This approach doesn’t work for...