I've been falling behind on my reading and thought I'd try something new. Weeks (months?!) ago I swore I would read "The Gir...

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to...

We want certain people to be perfectionists. We want them not to rest until their work is exactly right. Brain surgeons, chemists, genet...

Our dreams define us. They make us who we are. Maybe your dreams are quirky—square blocks that can’t fit in the world’s round holes. T...

I’ve talked before (see Links , below) about how I write a critique, but I’ve never written about how I do a general review. Time to chan...

I’ve been away from blogging for a while so I sat down and, feeling rusty, thought about the characteristics of a good blog post. What...

I’ve been mulling over a pattern I’ve noticed: my work that has received the highest praise from readers is work in which I wrote about,...

Lately I’ve been thinking about the importance of finding beta readers, readers who are right for you.  For the most part I’ve had w...

As I mentioned last week , I’ve been overly concerned with what others think about my work, letting it paralyze me at times. This week I...

It’s said that, at the end of life, what haunts us ISN’T the things we did but the things we didn’t do.  We can’t do everything in t...