Category Archives: Writing
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 …
Write What You Know? No, Write What You Love.
I have lately had a mini-crisis of sorts in regards to my still new, but no longer fledgling freelance writer status. I haven’t been motivated to write much of anything. I see the thick book full of potential markets for future writings, with all of the specific instructions on how to make inquiries to each, …
Shakespeare Authorship and Our Expectations of Greatness
This is not a scholarly post. Let me make that clear. However, it is a response to a certain scholarship. The Shakespeare Authorship “question”. Mainly, in how it relates to the way we perceive greatness, accomplishment, and creativity. I am not guilty of the so called “Bardolatry”. The author of the plays contributed by Shakespeare …
Looking Back on the AuGuest Extravaganza
I sit here on the morning of September 1, periodically singing Neil Diamond’s “September Morn” as I am wont to do on this morning every year. In addition to that silliness, I am also looking back over a highly successful experiment here at Too XYZ: The AuGuest Extravaganza. Over the last 30 days, six of …
Ty Unglebower 