Category Archives: Writing
Launch Party Fun: A Prologue
I wanted to mention that tomorrow evening I will be attending a launch party for the FiND iT FREDERiCK Magazine website. Food, drink, mingling, speeches. I know what you are thinking. It’s the least Ty-like thing you could possibly imagine. And while that may not be 100% accurate, I would not blame any of my …
Writer’s Sex or Writer’s Love?
Today over on her blog Comma N’ Sentence, my friend and professional writer Laryssa Wirstiuk writes of the importance of being honest with oneself as a writer. Of the need for writers to be, as much as is possible, objective when it comes to reading their own works, and subsequently revising same. While she concedes …
A Million of Your Own Words
There is an old observation in the writing world, based on no science at all. It is often said that you don’t start to become a truly good writer until you have written at least one million words. And they don’t mean just any words either, but words into which you have put specific, concerted …
Pulling Back on Pushing the Envelope
I have written some posts here and other places that have gotten a lot of readers and comments. Pushed a lot of buttons and pissed people off. (At least based on said comments.) And I have written a lot of posts that hardly get read at all. Posts that illicit zero comments. I won’t pretend …
Yes, Virginia, There Was a Writer
Due to it being the most reprinted newspaper editorial in the history of the English language (verified), most people, regardless of their faith, are familiar with this piece, known now to history as “Yes, Virginia. There is a Santa Claus.” Unsigned at the time of its publication in The Sun in 1897, it was of …
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