Lately, I have sampled a few, different editors and have found they are not created equal, and finding one that doesn’t rip your creative endeavors to shreds is the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack. Not that the ripping isn’t warranted, and I learn much from each ripping. But a little positive feedback would have been nice from the […]
WOOL Author, Hugh Howey, Talks About Life As A Writer And Self-Publishing.
You might think I’m living the best days of my life right now, but that isn’t the case at all. —Hugh Howey Four Points 1. I began reading the science fiction underground hit, Wool, last night. 2. Wool author Hugh Howey is a self-publishing success story. 3. A person in my Writer’s group asked: “Are there […]
Upton Sinclair: Aim At The Heart. Living Life As A Writer.
blog post #48 by Science Fiction Author Clara Bush Image at Pixabay by Simon Before writing his 1906 bestselling novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover in Chicago meatpacking plants. His purpose in writing his political fiction was to rally support for the factory workers. Sinclair’s graphic details depicting the sale of spoiled beef, […]
Self-Publishing Motivation. Carl Sandburg and Henry David Thoreau On Writing.
Pixabay Image by inspiredimages Summer invaded. Visitors. Camping trips. Family. And my writing went the way of dead spring flowers—faded and dismissed—praying for a rain endowed wind or hungry bird to escort them to fertile fields. Sparkers, Novella III of my The Creep Mesquite Anthology is due to release in August, and I’m currently on my […]