Two years ago when I started my job, I had the privilege of meeting Miss Alice. Alice is the store’s event coordinator and a teacher for many classes on various types of crafting. She’s the mother hen type, always clucking and fussing over the people she works with, the regular… Read the rest...
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.– Marcus Tullius Cicero
I often find myself coming to my blog, sitting and staring at an empty screen while I try to think of something to talk about. It’s not that I have nothing to say, it’s just that… Read the rest...
For as much as I love the written word, you might be surprised to know that there aren’t very many books in my house. Our video game collection fills two whole bookshelves and then some, but books? There’s only enough of them to fill two shelves. That’s shelves, mind you,… Read the rest...
Modern authors just don’t know how to handle distance travel.It’s a broad brush to paint with, but the more I read recent fiction, the more I find it to be true. Distance is a difficult subject to handle in books. It’s something I struggle with, myself. You can draw maps… Read the rest...
The month of November represents a lot of things. With Halloween officially past, everyone starts gearing up for the winter holidays. People begin making travel plans, decorating their homes, shopping for feasts and festivities. But it holds something else for writers.
If you’ve never spent a lot of time writing,… Read the rest...
I’ve heard several people saying the same thing in the past week.“I want to be a writer,” they say, either wistfully or with a starry gleam in their eyes. I am a writer, of course, so a few of them have presented this statement to me in a tone of… Read the rest...
The autumnal equinox slipped by with very little notice in the Alvarez household.The change of seasons is something I’ve always loved to watch, the subtle shifts in the weather especially pleasant. It’s always a great feeling when you encounter the first cool autumn days after a particularly long summer, or… Read the rest...