When I was younger, I had dreams of being a fantastic author. I had always been a smart kid, often regarded as above average in academic subjects. So why shouldn’t I think that I would be successful as an author? I did have all the requisites: a good …
I recently watched the movie Ever After (1998), staring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, and Jeanne Moreau. The movie is described as a post-feminist interpretation of the Cinderella story, though I am not at all sure exactly what that means. My daughter is much more of an expert about what various genres and …
When I was younger – much younger – I had the pleasure of consulting to McGraw-Hill Publishing. The client wanted to make their editors more productive. More productive editors meant more books published and obviously more books published meant more profits for McGraw-Hill. I’m not …
Although I’ve been writing most of my life, school, work, and family often interfered with some of the requirements of becoming an effective writer. One of the main requirements is having a dedicated effort to write, if not every day, at least as often as possible. Life gets in the …
Have you ever considered trying your hand at fiction writing? Have you ever thought that maybe you knew the characters better than the author? Or you would write a story differently than the author did? Then perhaps you are a candidate to write fanfiction. If …
I usually try to keep politics out of my stories. By politics, I am usually referring to current political issues regarding policy issues. Unfortunately, politics often now includes social issues that go beyond justice, civil liberties, or the use of tax revenues. While some of these social issues …