Don’t Needle Me: Sports and Sewing Metaphors
While traveling not long ago, I saw a woman toting a sewing machine as her carry-on luggage. No one stopped her. What is the matter with the Transportation Security Administration?…
Know Your Audience and Write for Them
What do Janet Evanovich and Dan Kennedy have in common? They both sell a LOT of books. I once heard Janet Evanovich speak about writing on a CD from the…
New Book Shares Writing Tips, Lessons Learned
In nature, we sometimes find an incredible blossom springing from something ungainly and almost ugly. The same can be said for our writing. "Shitty first drafts," a term made popular…
Wordslaying: How to Omit Unnecessary Words
Friends are generally surprised when I tell them I used to be a bird hunter. Using a .410 (small gauge) shotgun, I’d often limit out on doves before grown men…
