Category: Writing Life

  • That Flash of Delight

    Writing is a slow-going effort. It’s a solitary and troublesome venture. What keeps a writer coming back to his chair day after day? There are…

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  • My First Reader

    My writing, when first born, is a very ugly baby. Seriously. You don’t see the first draft of anything. If you did you would say,…

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  • A Change in Setting

    My writing table is cleared but for a box of Puffs tissues, a Moleskine calendar, a short stack of books headed for donation, a small…

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  • Waiting, A Writer’s Skill

    There are many skills a writer needs. Many of them are obvious. All can be learned. Some are learned whether one plans to write creatively…

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  • Reading at Speakeasy

    Last Thursday evening here in Danville, Indiana, Speakeasy Books and More held their inaugural reading, and I was privileged to be one the four authors…

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