Poet of the Month Finale

Today is my final guest posting as February "poet of the month" at Angela Felsted's blog, My Poetry and Prose Place. Today's piece is called "Graham at St. Stephens." If you can...

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Austen-inspired story contest: please vote!

The Republic of Pemberley site is holding a short story contest, "Jane Austen Made Me Do It." Click HERE to read the stories and vote for your top three favorites.One might question...

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Editor-on-Call: ending apostrophe abuse*

Apostrophes remain the most abused punctuation out there. I see them misused on billboards and shop window signs, in manuscripts I critique and blogs I stalk. After critiquing...

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The magic of bilocation

I'm once again guest posting at Angela Felsted's Blog, My Poetry and Prose Place, a post entitled Making Words Your Playground. I share some exercises to grow a wide and flexible...

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What if words could dance?

The blogosphere has been buzzing about the e-book phenomenon for some time. One question that publishers are thinking about--but writers may not be--is how might we harness technology...

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The limits of Google research

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Google searches in the research process. They can be an efficient way to fact-check aspects of your story. I've at times used Googlemaps street...

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What is that thing? Harnessing outsider perspective

A friend from Texas visited my neighborhood and saw a fellow just like this scamper across the street and up a tree."What the heck was that thing?" he asked."A squirrel," I said."Yeah,...

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Happy Palindrome Day!

For most of the world, today's date is 11-02-2011, a palindrome. You know, something that can be read the same forward and backward. I suppose we wacky Americans will celebrate...

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E-mail file blunders: learn from my stupidity

When you work on multiple computers, you have to be careful or you're likely to lose precious hours. I've usually used the program Dropbox to keep all my files synced, but earlier...

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Giving life to peripheral stories

Writing a novel usually involves generating an extensive amount of imaginative material--mentally and perhaps on paper as well--that will never appear directly in the book itself....

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Guest posting at My Poetry and Prose Place

I've been selected as one of Angela Felsted's Poets of the Month after placing in her poetry contest. Today she posted my poem "Moving On" at My Poetry and Prose Place. I'll be...

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