Writing is an often isolating endeavor, so opening a day, I have learned over the years, with a post on some issue that grabbed my attention, helps me clear my head and get going.
“An interest of mine…”
“Who Do You Think You Are?”
What nationality would you be if you could not be what you are? Do you ever *think* you’d like to be someone else, and from somewhere else?
A Writer’s “Labo(u)r”
I have lived here in England for nearly two decades. There are still times I don’t understand a “Britishism” tossed at me in conversation. Or my English Mrs. will warn me if I have just said something not normally heard here: “You’re speaking American.”
Sunday Reflections
Who says “romantic” historical novels can’t teach us something?
The Artist As A Coward
If you fear what you create for the public will be critiqued, I suggest it would be best if you did not create anything for the public.
Men Of State (And State Of Men)
Fear not, we can at least still fire off an enraged tweet or concoct a cutting Instagram meme: that’ll make the bastard tremble at his keyboard, no doubt.
“Rootlessness” And A Price For It
If I think back here to where I was at age 20 (then, I was living in Fairbanks, Alaska), and then at 30 (I was in Paris), and then at 40 (I was married by then and here in London), and, uh, well, you get the idea…
Chesham, Codicote, And Beyond
I feel it’s invaluable and even necessary as writers to “use” what we know. You may think what you experience is “uninteresting,” but to others out there unfamiliar with, for example, places about which you write, it may prove an eye-opener.
“Wherever you are in the world”
When I began writing that first book in 2012, I had thought it might interest mostly Americans. There is a group of Americans – I learned as a college lecturer – who love reading books about Europe, and especially about France.
The Reach
Here’s one for the Department of “If You Think No One Is Paying Attention, You’re Wrong.”
Every Life Has Consequences
If we think our life has no consequences, we are absolutely wrong. It has more consequences to more people than we realize.
Shouting For Help Into The Internet Void
I thought, too, that she seemed to be about my niece’s age – in her young 20s. To feel/be so “alone” in her view of the world at that age as to even remotely consider doing that to herself? Her whole life ahead of her? With the whole world out there?
Request To My Followers: Please Visit This Woman’s Post
Let’s keep her busy. Please consider following her and commenting. Please like her post. Let’s make her phone buzz endlessly.
The Next Next
As a writer, one tends to think ahead too. I find now that I am getting on with the new book, appearing in the back of my mind is what happens after it.
Stories About Stories
And if I run into the “aspiring author” stuff one more time on social media, or well, anywhere, I may, uh, well… I just hate seeing it.
