Logos & Mythos Blog
Welcome to the LOGOS & MYTHOS Blog! This is my virtual home for thoughts on reading, writing and all things literary. Get cozy, prop your feet up and sip some hot tea with me as I share my Indie Author journey. Subscribe below to receive each weekly post right in your inbox and check out this post for the story behind my unusual blog—and Press—name.
An Author’s Best Resource: the Active Reader
If you're like me, you love to read. And, like me, you may want to be a much more active reader than you've been in the past. By "active reader" I refer to a reader who seeks ways to interact with the book and its author. I've been a reader all my life, but spent much...
Writing Lessons While Reading
Like beacons of light along a garden path at night, books offer flashes of influence and inspiration to each eager reader and invaluable writing lessons for any aspiring writer. Over the years, these gifts have filled my heart and mind, making my life rich and my...
Wanted: Literary Divining Rod
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 got...
What Writing Has Taught Me
Storytelling allows me one of the fullest lives possible; it also teaches me writing lesson after writing lesson. These instructions don't teach me how to write; they teach me how to live. You may ask, “How is that even possible? Isn’t writing a solitary...
Inspiration in the Daily Mess
Where does Inspiration live? From where does it emerge? For me, as a writer, Inspiration shows up randomly—always on his timetable, not mine.
So, What Genre Do You Write?
So, what genre do you write? Ah! The dreaded question! I believe I am more than a single genre.