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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
