Find Your Writing Niche
Women and Adversity: Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1945
May 12, 2016Women and Adversity: Gabriela Mistral May is National Latino Books month, so I did some research on Latin American writers. I learned that Gabriela Mistral, a poet from Chile, is the first Lati ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Political Writing
December 15, 2015Politics and politicians dominate headlines and television programs, and with the presidential race underway, all media enter the fray. I was asked to write the newsletter for my town when I lived i ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Interviews
December 1, 2015To avoid the dreaded cliché “When the shoe is on the other foot,” I chose “When the shoe moves.” Not that clever, but it’s not a cliché, and it brings me to the topic of this blog. ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Foreign Correspondent
November 17, 2015Listening to the reports from Paris this past week made me realize how fascinating it is to be a foreign correspondent. It’s a monumental challenge that requires stamina and determination. Wr ...
FIND YOUR WRITING NICHE: PERENNIALS
November 3, 2015Decades of tear sheets of my printed stories and rejected manuscripts filled my filing cabinet to capacity, and I had to make decisions: what to keep, what to trash. At the first run-through I onl ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Crossword Puzzles
October 19, 2015I’ve been working crossword puzzles since I was 19, and I considered writing a few until I looked into how to write them. It takes a special mindset to create a crossword puzzle, and I don’t h ...
Find Your Writing Niche: ProBlogger
October 6, 2015I don’t know how I learned of www.problogger.net, b ...
A correct connection to Grammarly
September 22, 2015Evidently the link to Grammarly that I cited in my last post didn't make the connection. Here's the correct one: https://www.gra ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Grammarly
September 15, 2015Spell check and grammar check are dreams come true for writers. The little wiggly line that indicates an error saves authors, journalists, novelists──the entire writing community──hours of t ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Recipes and Cookbooks
August 18, 2015Most newspapers have a Food section highlighting local produce, festivals and fairs with their food specialties, such as North Carolina’s Oyster Festival, the Blueberry Festival in Burgaw, N.C. ...