Category Archives: Rogue Writer

It’s not supposed to be the way you want it; it’s art. And it’s mine. Photo by LaustDeleuran via Flickr I feel like I’ve written about this topic too much, too often, but it must still bother me. I keep … Continue reading →

Midnight guards the gate–always on alert against the Tsunami of Swill photo by mike warren via flickr During the summer of 2000, our family lived in Baltimore and we took a trip to Colonial Williamsburg. One of the things that … Continue reading →

I could watch this show for hours. Photo by admiller via flickr Update: I completely forgot an item on the list below. That’s how insidious St. Paul’s Avoidance Syndrome is. You can’t even remember how wily you are. Anyway, I … Continue reading →

Everywhere you go, you hear the refrain: All writers need editors. All writers must hire an editor! Every single one! No exceptions! It’s getting a tad silly. Photo by DanielleKellogg via Flickr And it’s got sub-refrains, too: It takes a … Continue reading →

Okay, so you’re an introvert with a touch of madness–the best sort of introvert, right?–because you write books, opening yourself up for attention, criticism, fame and such. Fame is something any self-respecting introvert runs screaming from…and yet, there you are, publishing … Continue reading →

I read a blog the other day by Charlee Vale over at From the Write Angle in which she discusses the power of words. You aren’t going to publish that, are you? photo by underwhelmer via flickr Charlee recalls being … Continue reading →

In one of my classes at the recent Florida Tech Creative Writing Institute, we read the first few chapters of All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. It was, of course, exquisite. But when the discussion began, a man in … Continue reading →

The publishing world is changing at a rapid pace. Social media is still fairly new and exciting. Put the two together and you get the new version of used-car salesmen: authors. Come in and buy. You know you want me. … Continue reading →

Black cat; white roof. photo by ssoosay via flickr Today*, on my various forms of social media, I posted a link to an article about a brief spat between Philip Roth and Elizabeth Gilbert on writing: Is writing hell, or … Continue reading →

Gabe Habash at Publishers Weekly tells us that “[h]alf of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins…cracked … Continue reading →