Wyso And The Other Creepy Kids on Gerard Street
Man's Best
Sparkers
Better Dig 2
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 […]
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 […]