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A Writer’s Guide to Interactivity and Privacy
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Who is Your Writing Mentor and Why?
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Carrot or Stick — What’s Your Reward for Writing?
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The Responsibility of Writing
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The Physical, Mental and Spiritual of Writing
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Hard and Fast Rules?
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What Steals You Away From Writing?
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An Infinite Number of Monkeys
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Keep Your Grammar Nazi Out of my First Draft
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‘Milk’ing the Cow and Writer’s Block
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Hard and Fast Rules?
Posted on June 3, 2010 | 4 CommentsShare Attending the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Maryland, one of the things you learn early on is that there are any number of rules to writing news, features, sports, an op/ed and so on. However, as instructors dashed future military journalists hopes on... -
What Steals You Away From Writing?
Posted on May 27, 2010 | 3 CommentsShare I used to believe I had attention deficit disorder. My interests span a number of things – writing, drawing, illustration, filmmaking, writing music, sports, video games, reading, tabletop gaming — and I’m usually engaged with several of those at once, either personally or volunteering time... -
A Burrito Grows in Bavaria
Posted on May 25, 2010 | 2 CommentsShare Nestled in the mountains of the proudest state in Germany, at the end of a road that twists more than a Lady Gaga dancer, in a town with enough syllables to make a thesaurus blush, is a little bridge (and it would help if you rolled your... -
My First Marker on Mortality Road
Posted on May 17, 2010 | 3 CommentsShare Ronnie James Dio died May 16. Mr. Dio was a rock star, of sorts, who really enjoyed sports. He wrote songs while watching New York Yankees and Giants games. He fronted a heavy metal band called “Dio,” as well the bands Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Deep... -
An Infinite Number of Monkeys
Posted on May 14, 2010 | 6 CommentsShare I always liked the phrase “An infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters could create Shakespeare if given enough time.” Wikipedia’s even gone scientific with it. The phrase does nothing but fire me up as a creative. Why? I know the words are nothing... -
A Month With The iPad
Posted on May 12, 2010 | 4 CommentsShare I love my iPad. It’s helping my 4-year-old to learn math. I draw on it. I surf the web on it. I watch movies and listen to music on it. In short, it’s one of the best technology purchases I’ve ever made. (Note: I... -
Keep Your Grammar Nazi Out of my First Draft
Posted on May 10, 2010 | 8 CommentsShare There are two that come to mind. Let’s get them out of the way now: It’s and its Their, there and they’re If me typing either of those gets you excited for a conversation about two common grammar mistakes, steer clear. I’m addressing first-draft... -
‘Milk’ing the Cow and Writer’s Block
Posted on May 7, 2010 | 2 CommentsShare I am approximately 50,000 words into my latest work, a science fiction/humor work called “Galactic Milk.” A few of you read pieces of it online. I can see the finish line. I know how it will end, which is rare for anything I write (I... -
The Devil is in the Details
Posted on April 30, 2010 | 2 CommentsShare For the length of my professional writing career and in my own personal writing, if there’s one message that’s always rang true it’s this: be specific, not general. So I’ve always tried to abide by that principle. And, I suppose, that thinking goes toward... -
First column at ‘Ermas’
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No CommentsShare My first column is up at ‘An Army of Ermas’ It’s about my daughter’s Barbie collection. Enjoy.