Find Your Writing Niche
Women and Adversity: Maria Toorpakai Pakistan Author, “A Different Kind of Daughter”
September 8, 2016Most of us women in the U.S. have no concept of what it’s like to live under oppressive conditions or under a tyrannical regime. We go to school, buy clothes we like, date and have the freedom ...
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 ...