The Writing Nag

“When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it’s a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what’s happening. She becomes Continue reading To My Dear Father→

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927 One of Continue reading Having Imagination→

I hope you stop by and read my interview this morning. Thanks Drew aka Ben Spark. I’ll be back this evening with a creative writing post. Now get back to work!

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ~Jorge Luis Borges You walk the same way every time but Continue reading It’s All in the Details→

About a month ago I joined YouData, I said I’d report back after a month with my review. How it works: 1. When you log into the site you do a series of quick, easy surveys. No personal information is Continue reading Making Money with YouData→

Just a couple of Billy Collins poems while I’m reading his book, Ballistics.

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” Ernest Hemingway In April I won a subscription to Writer’s Digest so yesterday I received two issues the May/June Continue reading Can you Learn How to Write?→