Find Your Writing Niche
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. ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Newspapers are dying; use social media
August 4, 2015I was asked recently to write a promo for an event, and I embraced the opportunity like a neophyte because I like to write about almost anything. I told the person in charge that we ha ...
Women and Adversity: Growing Indoor—and outdoor—plants
July 16, 2015- Growing healthy flowers and plants has always been a challenge for me. I tell people my green thumb is rusty, but I don’t know why they die. I am on my fourth hibiscus in three ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Current Events
July 7, 2015What a well-spring of ideas current events offers. Just in the last month Rachel Dolezal claims to be black Two murderers escape a maximum security prison Only two women are declared can ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Perseverence
June 16, 2015Writers get discouraged at getting those “Not for Us” emails, yet we all have heard and read stories of those who succeeded after many failed attempts. J.K. Rowling comes to mind. A recent post ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Political Comic Books
June 2, 2015Comic book company Bluewater Productions in Vancouver, WA began including politicians in their stories in 2009. Currently, the company has published three on Hillary Clinton and released one on ...