Writing a Novel During a Pandemic
On Leap Year weekend this past February, I had no way to predict that it would be my last time to hang out face-to-face with my family for a long while. We were all in Baton Rouge, celebrating my nephew's
Happy Drops of Validation
In the deep sea of rejection that writing often brings, it sure is nice to get a bit of occasional validation. I've been querying literary agents; I've received nibbles here and there, a few requests, but no official bites yet.
Will the REAL Mr. Newland Please Stand Up?
If you're near my age (55), you probably watched that television game show, TO TELL THE TRUTH, which aired from about 1956 to 1978. On the show, four celebrity panelists were presented with three contestants. The challenge was to identify
What Triggers the Story Ideas?
I've only written one short story, and a London-based online site called STORGY Magazine recently published it. Here's a link to "Yellow" which was inspired by something my father said in passing one day. Dad was looking at a brochure
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