All writers have egos. That’s one of the things that drives us to write. We think we have something to say and no one is going to stop us! Some of us also have sensitive egos. While we fervently believe that what we’re saying is the most important thing ever uttered, we fear how others …
I met my editor! She is a real person! Not a computer algorithm or a heuristic writing/editing program! I was in California for a week and I thought I would actually go over my latest book, Desperate Druggie, with my editor, Tara Maya in person. “I have too many edits to simply discuss them on …
How often does the average person sit around wondering why their social life sucks? I suppose if you are married, you don’t spend too much time thinking about this, though from what I’ve heard, most married people don’t have much of a social life anyway. Maybe I’m just talking to the wrong married people. When …
I haven’t been writing much lately. Instead, I’ve been binging on The Good Wife. I hadn’t watched it for seven years, being very mistaken about its content. I thought it was a sappy soap opera type of program. Maybe in the back of my mind I knew it was about lawyers, but it never attracted …
Like most people, I usually start the New Year with a series of lofty goals for the next 365 days. Most of the really important ones are usually lost or abandoned within the first few days, partly because those goals involve changing habits that have been practiced for months on end. So let it be …
It’s the end of 2015. Now I have to start worrying about writing the wrong year on checks. I also have a lot planned for 2016, but I will get to that when I do my New Year’s post. What I want to do now is a recap of what I have accomplished in 2015. …