Although this story is about professional writers, we’re all writers, and in this day when 90% of communication is written: you are what you write!! Enjoy this little tale, and whatever you do, remember this: It’s a Wonderful Life made more so with good writing skills. Wilbers: Good writers protect team members from harsh critics ...
For just about all of us writers, writer’s block is one of those black cloud gremlins that hovers about from time to time. Many kinds of gremlins lurk in the shadows, including the: I can’t do it gremlin I don’t know what to write about gremlin I’m too busy gremlin I don’t have big enough ...
Here’s yet another commentary. The Net is rife with them these days because the collective curricula of our nation’s schools is relegating the art of penmanship to the dinosaurs. This is a tragedy of maximum dimension! I urge you to take a read of this op ed piece on the topic. Robert Errera not only ...
Don’t over write. Wow? What kind of a way is that to start out a post? It’s a simple, straight-forward, don’t-let-the-words-get-in-the-way-of-the-message way to start a post. A well-known publication on the Net, which I used to quite revere for its unique view on critical current matters, is now tripping all over its self, or rather, ...
Who would think that there is a prize for the most wicked, gruesome metaphor? Well, there is, and here is the winner of this years Bulwer-Lytton prize for bad writing ...
Ugh — Have I ever been shuffling through the dry zone, as in desert, as in nada, zero, zilch for ideas and creativity. Here’s why. I have been doing nothing to nurture my muse: nada, zero zilch. Instead, I have turned on autopilot and focus on going through the motions — in this case — ...
I’d like to make a case for The Pen Age. That’s right, The Pen (as in ballpoint) Age. In these days of rabid use of laptops, cell phones, faxes and pagers, when I cruise the aisles of Office Max or Staples, I’m not magnetically drawn to the shelves of high-tech gadgets. Far from it – ...
Along with the slimy, moldy, miserable deluges and heavy gray skies, my spirit for writing, or more precisely, my creative spark, my Zen god, my splinter under the fingernail sprint, have all found a dark corner of their own to curl into. I was going to write a few weeks ago about how to find ...
Hey boys and girls, it’s MY ocean, too!!!! Fukushima is now the radioactive Deepwater Horizon of the Pacific. ...
For some time, I have been wondering about the popularity and viability of Facebook as a mainstay of online social intercourse. Clearly, Facebook has outpaced Myspace which in turn has outpaced Facebook. But is Facebook now being replaced by yet another entity of online socialization? As I pondered my own online activity, I began to ...