Find Your Writing Niche
Find Your Writing Niche: Foreign Correspondent
November 17, 2015Listening to the reports from Paris this past week made me realize how fascinating it is to be a foreign correspondent. It’s a monumental challenge that requires stamina and determination. Wr ...
FIND YOUR WRITING NICHE: PERENNIALS
November 3, 2015Decades of tear sheets of my printed stories and rejected manuscripts filled my filing cabinet to capacity, and I had to make decisions: what to keep, what to trash. At the first run-through I onl ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Crossword Puzzles
October 19, 2015I’ve been working crossword puzzles since I was 19, and I considered writing a few until I looked into how to write them. It takes a special mindset to create a crossword puzzle, and I don’t h ...
Find Your Writing Niche: ProBlogger
October 6, 2015I don’t know how I learned of www.problogger.net, b ...
A correct connection to Grammarly
September 22, 2015Evidently the link to Grammarly that I cited in my last post didn't make the connection. Here's the correct one: https://www.gra ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Grammarly
September 15, 2015Spell check and grammar check are dreams come true for writers. The little wiggly line that indicates an error saves authors, journalists, novelists──the entire writing community──hours of t ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Recipes and Cookbooks
August 18, 2015Most newspapers have a Food section highlighting local produce, festivals and fairs with their food specialties, such as North Carolina’s Oyster Festival, the Blueberry Festival in Burgaw, N.C. ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Newspapers are dying; use social media
August 4, 2015I was asked recently to write a promo for an event, and I embraced the opportunity like a neophyte because I like to write about almost anything. I told the person in charge that we ha ...
Women and Adversity: Growing Indoor—and outdoor—plants
July 16, 2015- Growing healthy flowers and plants has always been a challenge for me. I tell people my green thumb is rusty, but I don’t know why they die. I am on my fourth hibiscus in three ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Current Events
July 7, 2015What a well-spring of ideas current events offers. Just in the last month Rachel Dolezal claims to be black Two murderers escape a maximum security prison Only two women are declared can ...