I never outright count words, but based on my experience I would say a good start is just give yourself a recurring and rational goal you feel you can reach: “I’ll get a decent page done daily.” … More My 500 To 700
What Americans celebrate today is not national perfection, but independence as a nation-state. … More The 2018 National Birthday
A “sea lion” fights always to get in the last word ON YOUR SITE; you can’t end an exchange, the “sea lion” must. … More “Sea lion, you’re in my house”
He thought reading reviews is usually unhelpful to a writer. Bad reviews are likely to discourage you without actually providing much help for future writing; on the other hand reading good ones might go to your head and bring on a sense of complacency. … More When You Are @-ed
Ironically in the 1780s and 1790s Americans here in England, or in France, or in Spain, or in the Netherlands, often mixed in such places for the first time with fellow Americans from other US states. … More Only The Beginnings
Here’s a suggestion of something to try if you are one of those and still claim you don’t know what you want to write about. … More “I had arrived at long last”
Another case in point: my friends and I watched Friends, first run, when it was brand new… … More And A Century From Now?
It had been built in the 1870s by a minor “gentry” family that lived in it until the 1920s. Learning that, suddenly I wasn’t thinking about the 1940s. About now, the writer in me also emerged. … More A Secret Location No More
“But this must be very tiring for you, Robert? Shall I see England too? Oh, but I know you are still creating me. I hope I shall be beautiful and memorable…” … More In The Early Morning Quiet
R. J. Nello 