“Friendly” European Places
To some cities I find “friendly” in various ways that were not on the magazine’s readers’ list.
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Wallis (The Sequel) Continues…
The path to removing yourself from the blinding spotlight of unwanted publicity is NOT to do an Oprah interview on CBS on a Sunday evening and anyone with half a brain knows that.
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“It is what I know”
Lots of people apparently badly misunderstand the “write what you know” advice.
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Adults May Be “Young,” But They Are Never “New”
If you want to write about 18-29 year olds, do NOT call them “new adult” books.
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Why Writers Need To Go Outside Now And Then
Having a writing break, I tend to scroll Instagram and Twitter – on the latter particularly its #writingcommunity hashtag. In doing so again yesterday, and again earlier, I found I was after a time asking myself (as usual): Why am I reading Twitter? LOL!
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A Hill I Am Willing To Die Defending
Hi everyone. I just wanted to offer these authoring thoughts on this overcast and rainy Sunday English morning…
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Thieves, Frauds, Plagiarists, And Publishing
Welcome to just some tiny bits of the known theft and misrepresentation that besets authors and undermines reputable publishing, 2021 version.
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Why Do We Follow?
I suspect it is a question many of us have. However, since we never do directly ask, we never know in terms of most followers.
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The First Five
Let’s have a brief look back at each of the first five U.S. presidents…
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Remember Restaurants?
When I saw that article mentioned on Instagram again yesterday, I started to think about my own pandemic relationships.
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The Varied “Viewpoints”
Writing for readers is (to me) all about being creative and not being afraid to stick your neck out in order to try to get the story to best resonate with a reader.
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Their Reader’s Eye
Writing a book is, to me, mostly just barely controlled chaos. At the start of a new one, I set out a basic outline of a few pages of what I think may happen, including the ending. Subsequently, there is no real “pattern” to getting the bulk of it finished.
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“Charité at War”
I was particularly drawn to it because being a German-made production about the Second World War, it is rare for rather obvious reasons.
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Friday Digest: 5 February 2021
Several varied points to conclude this week…
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