You’ve got a style unique to you. A fashion style. A work style. A social style. So many types of styles! My question for you is: do you know what your style is? And, if you do, have you learned to embrace it? These are some questions I’ve been answering for myself...
Perhaps I’ve convinced you that writing book reviews is worth your time. I hope so! Over the past few months, I’ve experienced frustration with poorly written or unhelpful reviews, irritation with reviews whose ratings are based on personal preferences—from people who...
Spend more than a few seconds around books and the quirky individuals who write them, and you will hear a plea for book reviews. As a reader, you may wonder what the big deal is. Are they really that important? Why should you write them? And, how on earth do you do...
Fantasy—the one genre I swore I would never, no how, no way write. Guess what I’m writing? In order to write fantasy, I have to do something incredibly more difficult than piecing words together to make a book; it’s called world-building. This is the third...
I love to write. Always have. Some of my first stories came from a chubby Snoopy pencil. (Anyone else remember those fat pencils that seemed way too big for tiny beginning writers’ hands?) I covered and wrote about my first event before I hit double digits. I...
Have you ever wished you could take out wanted ads for life? Wanted: one house elf to wash dishes, scrub baseboards, clean toilets and complete other equally annoying tasks Wanted: a Lewis to my Tolkien (Don’t laugh, but I actually wrote this one out and...
