How Not To Write

Do you ever dream of that perfect game night? When you and four of your closest writer friends sit down to play a game of Scrabble or Boggle or maybe Huggermugger? Huggermugger? Alright, I might be showing my age (and eccentricity) with Huggermugger, but I love word games! If you follow me on Twitter, you [...]

No, it’s not a beret, but it might as well be. Now that I’m supposed to be a serious and devoted writer, I’m going to focus on writing only the most serious and dedicated of posts on the austere topic of the writing life. Yeah, I’m not buying it either. To those of you who [...]

“Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart.” ~ W.B. Yeats On Sunday, I wrote about inspiration. I told you a story about a sunrise and the effect of spending time with someone who is pursuing their passion. When I finished writing that piece, I went off to my journal to [...]

As most of you know, I volunteered to write an ode for the winner of Daniel Smith’s Can You Put the Wit in Twitter contest, and I was quite pleased when my pal RhodesTer, aka Dave, was announced as the winner! Here’s his winning tweet: The lady at The Coffee Bean laughed at my joke [...]

Daniel Smith (aka @smithereensblog on Twitter) is running a great new Twitter contest: Write your best example of witty wordplay in 140 characters or less and post it on Twitter to enter, then drop the link along with the full-text into the comments below (but be sure to read the 5 rules at the bottom [...]