Tag: United States

Interview of a Character – Maggie Christopher

Lou Christopher’s wife Maggie plays a big role in my novel A Bridge to Treachery. It’s a role that grew exponentially from the moment she was given her own POV, because she provides a relentlessly practical approach to solving dilemmas at the same time that she  holds on to her love for Lou.  Maggie has […]

The Mysterious Case of the Semi-Viral Tweet

The Mystery Before a day or two ago, I had never gotten more than about 10 Re-tweets on any of the over 6000 tweets I have generated since I got started on this mysterious thing called Twitter.  Then, a couple of days ago, I opened my email and found a deluge of Re-tweets of a […]

Find Article Ideas in Pinterest; and DIY Trailers

    Compelling articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers who  have either created the articles or shared them from their perusal of the internet.  This week’s top four: Using Pinterest to Find Article Topics            Fresh ideas 4 […]

Sheepdog Mentality and The Unimportance of Inspiration

 From my daily copy of Paper.li , I choose four articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers. These followers have either created the articles or they have shared them from their perusal of the internet. In any case, what results is a short list […]

Slangy Characters and Tweeting Like a Boss

Do You Know the Real Problem With Slangy Characters?    Sage advice 10 Benefits Of Rejection     Buck up Teens Taught Me These 4 Critical Social Media Lessons       Out of the Mouths of Teens How to Tweet Like a Boss: Twitter Persona Worksheet     Twitter Tips If you like this post […]

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 […]

Everything Old is Newagen: Historic Southport Inn

Southport is an island in the Boothbay region of Midcoast, Maine.  It is where I live.  The Newagen Inn is at the furthest tip of the island which has been known as Newagen  (say New Wagon)  since the earliest days when it was a fishing station in 1623.  Here is an article in the Boothbay […]