Is the customer always right? Of course not. This is not 1950. Are we word slaves at the service of tyrannical bosses? Nope. If somebody calls and wants us to essentially take dictation, I’ll refer them to a typist. If someone tells me they’ve completed their first...
For years, (Patton’s daughters) had been made to memorize a poem each week — Patton called it a “brain exercise” — and this new effort proved relatively simple. Later he paid them 10 cents a page to read items of his choosing, such as...
Here is an example of wonderfully descriptive writing. This is part of an article about the gigantic port explosion in Lebanon, written by the Washington Post’s correspondent Sarah Dadouch that appeared on August 5, 2020. ‘I have no idea how I’m not dead’: A...
How to write your dream novel with a ghostwriter. A conversation with ghostwriter Annette Parks You have a story kicking around in your head. Everybody does. The reason that your story is unique and must be told is because it’s yours. No two ideas are alike. Your...
I do love great writing. I found this today in the New York Times, written by Dan Berry. I thought I’d share a few paragraphs: POTTSTOWN, Pa. — An essential worker drove his cluttered Toyota Corolla through the early spring emptiness, past a sign outside a...
When was the first time you wrote something that absorbed you so completely that you lost track of time because you were super focused on the story you were writing? For me, it was around 1963, as a junior, in a creative writing class at Tustin High School, in Tustin,...
