Month: February 2014

Knotty Heroines and Bending Vincent’s Ear

I Hate Your Book Blurb     Constructive Criticism What Vincent van Gogh Taught Me About Plagiarism     Van Gogh the Copyist? First Meeting Between Adult Daughter and her Birth Father    Split at the Root Want to Try Something Knotty? Five Helpful Knots to Save Your Heroine’s Life      Learning the Ropes […]

Fawlty Towers and Papa Hemingway

An app to help you write like Hemingway   – Did Papa know what an app is? An Anthropologist Walks into a Bar…    More Good Stuff From Harvard Business Review Get More Traffic to your Blog with Blog Pinging    What’s Blog Pinging? If you like this post please consider subscribing.  From my daily […]

David Gordon’s Excellent Japanese Adventure

David Gordon is the author of  two novels and a collection of short stories, “White Tiger on Snow Mountain” coming out this fall.  His writing career is off the ground but  until a little while ago not exactly soaring.  Suddenly all kinds of good once in a lifetime things began to happen to David.  I’ll […]

When War Veterans Come Home to America

In the Sunday review section of the NY Times, Phil Klay, the author of “Redeployment”, a forthcoming collection of short stories, writes on the subject of experiences of veterans in war in an article entitled “After War, A Failure of Imagination“. As a former Marine, he relates conversations with civilian friends and acquaintances on the […]

Meryl Streep and A Sword-Wielding Commando

What families do to each other. August: Osage County      A critique of Meryl and the movie. #Email Marketing and Your Average #Author      Do all bloggers need email marketing? Your first everything will probably be terrible (and that’s okay)      Encouragement ‘Mad Jack’, the sword-wielding Commando of World War II     Eccentricity If […]