The Artistic Writer

One picture says a 1000 words. A luxury writers do not have. However writers have been known to get an idea to two from gazing at works of art. So in a silly effort to merge the two here are eleven famous paintings that describe the writing life.      ...

The Real Comma Rules

Grammarians have been known to do battle over the vagaries of comma placement. Syntax skirmishes, semi-colon controversy, and other punctuation persnicketiness can get downright nasty! Good thing this post is about other kinds of commas! Writing, rewriting, editing,...

Where Art Thou?

Setting is more than just location! Usually when folks think of setting in the literary sense they think physical location. But setting is much more than that. Authors construct setting like they do characters and plot. Setting is a powerful element for establishing...

Writing Fortress

The historical fiction I’m currently writing required extensive research on castles. And it struck me—somewhere between the first and second drafts—that the act of writing a novel shares many similarities with  the parts of a castle. The MOAT is a writer’s...

Word Spangled Banner

O say can you read by the computer’s LCD what so proudly we wrote during our last creative gleaming, whose broad themes and trite tropes shows the protag’s deep need, o’ver the keyboard we typed, with much symbolic meaning. And the misspellings red...
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