Category: A Writer’s Life
Art Is In Every Book You Read
Art is in every book you read. Marcel Duchamp, notorious in the art world for having successfully…
Aimless? In A Rut? Haiku yourself out of it.
Haikuing is fun and it only needs 17 syllables, give or take. I have haikued in the…
Book Giveaway To Celebrate Diversity
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we celebrate diversity. I’ve lived in and traveled…
Survey About Illuminated Manuscripts: Results
After my first self-edited draft of my latest book, The Golden Manuscripts Book 6 of the series…
The Common Man’s Book Reviews: The End of Civilization?
A while back (maybe seven years), I read a couple of articles on book reviews, written by…
A Moveable Feast–Hemingway’s Enduring Legacy On Writing
“But what if it is … only that you are trying to use words that people would…
Origins Of My Epistolary Novel
Do you have trouble throwing stuff? Those that you might have treasured in the past but are…
Notes On Book 5: The Shade Under the Mango Tree
When I do blog tours, like the one I’m doing with the release of my latest novel,The…
Packing Lightly ― Travel in Fiction and in Life
The protagonists of my latest novel, The Shade Under the Mango Tree, travel to exotic places. An…
Greatness in a book of fiction ― Show, don’t tell?
What makes for greatness in a book of fiction? Maybe this is a question impossible to answer…
Getting Ready for a Book Launch: My Latest Novel
I’m getting ready for the book launch of my latest novel. Yes, I’ve finished it: my latest…
Paying Homage to Gaskell’s Concerns About Women’s Issues
Every time is a good time for classical literature especially those addressing women’s issues, a hot topic…
Losing Your Soulmate: Writing While Grieving
I started a book February of 2018, hoping I could finish it and publish it before the…
When Writing, Like Painting, Is A Naked Art
A few years ago, I did a large canvas painting using sketches of models from an art…
Stream of Thought As Literary Device:The Novel as Case Study
I watch a lot of films. A lot more than I read books. Because television shows rarely…