Creative writing workshops can be a place where writers help colleagues shape their written work so that it effectively communicates the author’s intention. Or workshops can be a place where writers rip colleagues’ work, and the authors, to shreds. I don’t know what...
Suppose you were adopted at an early age. Suppose you didn’t know, and didn’t really care, whether your birth parents were alive. Suppose you’re Wyatt Hunt. A guy’s guy in your early forties, with your own boutique investigation firm, living in a converted San...
If you are in Coupeville, Washington on a Wednesday afternoon, stop by Local Grown Coffee, the coffee shop at the pier. There you will find Just Write. It’s a gathering of writers, hosted by Andrea Hurst, a literary agent and resident of Whidbey Island. * A few...
I don’t know about you, but I can spend hours fiddling around on the Internet, hunting for information about various topics or writing tips. Hours. The first reason is because I follow the trail wherever it leads. When I needed details about powder magazines so I...
Proofreading is so much more than reviewing text for errors. It is a masochistic activity that follows close on the heels of the euphoria of producing your final draft. It is an ogre that demands you subject yourself to a mind-numbing, euphoria-fizzling, eye-blearing,...
I will have to read Death Comes to Pemberley to find out. P.D. James’ latest novel, set six years after the marriage of Jane Austen’s characters Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy, was not on my reading list. Partly because it doesn’t star Adam...
