Wyso And The Other Creepy Kids on Gerard Street
Man's Best
Sparkers
Better Dig 2
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. —Ray Bradbury, WD (Warning: This diet is not for everyone. It’s only for those individuals who live to write.) As writers, more than we want to eat, sleep, or whatever, we […]
The Dark Hours. Living Life as a Writer
What I find most motivational during those dark hours of self-doubt is reading what other writers have to say. Summer invaded. Visitors. Camping trips. Family. And my writing went the way of dead spring flowers—faded, dismissed but never forgotten—praying for a rain endowed wind or a hungry bird to escort them to fertile fields. My […]
Steinbeck And Toole On Writing. The Many and the One.
As I mentioned in my last blog post, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969), committed suicide at thirty-one. His demise can be credited to one rejection from a major publisher. Toole’s rejection—given by Simon & Schuster’s senior editor Robert Gottlieb—went like this: … with all its wonderfulnesses, the book—even better plotted (and still better […]
The Power Of One. Living Life as a Writer.
I’m often asked: How do you do it? How do you keep writing after the rejections? Of course, only my writer friends ask me this question. My regular friends are unaware of my inner struggles. And I would say that most people don’t realize the struggle a writer faces day after day unless these people […]
The Em Dash. Writers Love ’em. Editors Hate ’em. How To Use ’em.
In my last blog, I said I’d take a break from the weird and wonderful and do some updates on my writing series. Confusion exists among writers on the usage of Em dashes. And what’s the difference between an En dash and an Em dash? They’re the same, right? Nope. Below is a quick guide […]
Ellipses…Guidelines for Their Safe Use In Fiction
Deviating from the weird and wonderful, the next two blogs will deal with writer business. I know. I feel your pain. But I receive so many hits on my blogs on ellipses and em dashes, it’s time to update. I’ve procrastinated long enough. Much confusion surrounds the use of ellipses — a series of three […]
Waking Dead Sleep
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ― Mark Twain The moon has always been a source of mysticism and folklore, and some poets, writers, and researchers link it to heighten supernatural activity. I’ve talked about my living in haunted houses. Have I mentioned that I occupied […]
Ghost Hunt Part 8: Ghostly Encounters
Next stop on our ghost hunt deviates from my personal ghostly encounters to those of another. On The Probe, I’m after authentic hauntings shared by people who have experienced paranormal contacts. For today’s blog, I interviewed JE. JE is a wife, the mother of four beautiful children, and an entrepreneur living in Central Texas. She is […]
Ghost Hunt, Part 7. Stella Lansing, Pioneer in Paranormal
No ghost hunt is complete without a discussion of The Strange Case of Stella Lansing. Lansing is a pioneer in the paranormal and started her journey into the unknown before any of the movies on paranormal activity were released. Terms like paranormal, supernatural, and ufology will overlap as we probe this unusual case. These terms […]
Ghost Hunt, Part 6. Ghost Town of Alta. Nikola Tesla, Are You Still Here?
Ghost towns have fascinated modern men for decades. Pioneers gathered their lives into traveling trunks or saddle bags, crawled onto horses, or into covered wagons and traveled West to chase their dreams. Often in such pursuits, they abandoned settlements to chase other dreams or to give up on the dreams that enticed them there in […]
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