Why I Believe “Beta Readers” Are A Mistake
May 30, 2023
A major rule to remember in authoring: You WILL NOT please everyone, so don’t even try to do so.. … More Why I Believe “Beta Readers” Are A Mistake
Month: May 2023
For Always Readers
May 26, 2023
What is too easily overlooked is fiction is also supposed to be entertaining. It is not a doctoral dissertation. So while trying to entertain even with the bulk of a tale being on the serious side, I also write assuming my readers know about that time and place to some degree, and are interested already (or they would not have bought the book) and are therefore not idiots… … More For Always Readers
“The Public Figures”
May 22, 2023
Not all authors are the same, of course. Our outlooks on authoring vary considerably. Recently, for example, an author I follow on Instagram had been posting photo after photo after video after video… … More “The Public Figures”
Introduction To “General Miseducation”
May 19, 2023
A law forcing educators to teach within those “parameters” clearly infringes on how an instructor may approach even the subject of the Declaration of Independence in a lecture without making a mockery of the entire idea of higher education… … More Introduction To “General Miseducation”
The Dog Under The Table
May 17, 2023
In the U.K., as well as elsewhere in Europe, such as France (and other than maybe Italy, no country is more obsessed with restaurant-dining than France), dogs are routinely allowed *inside* of restaurants. … More The Dog Under The Table
The Voice Of America
May 15, 2023
It has for decades provided good insights into U.S. politics and about life in the U.S. in general… … More The Voice Of America
Them Or Hem
May 12, 2023
This pops us now and then as a renewed “debate.” I have touched upon it before. It seems a good time now, though, to re-address it here – in full… … More Them Or Hem
Is This “Civil”?
May 10, 2023
Naturally, not everyone was happy about Saturday’s coronation… … More Is This “Civil”?
“Amsterdam”: The Film
May 7, 2023
I refuse to underestimate anyone’s knowledge (I will not do so in my own novels), but the U.S. in World War I (1917-18) and its immediate aftermath are I suspect relatively little-known by now to many or even most American late-teen and twenty-something cinema goers. … More “Amsterdam”: The Film
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