Tag: books
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Review: On Writing
The other day I finished reading On Writing by Stephen King. In truth, I enjoyed it. If anything though, I learned one thing: it wasn’t what I was hoping for. After reading review after review and hearing person after person say that On Writing was the best book on writing for a fiction writer, I…
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Making Sense Of Size
I started to have an interesting conversation with my wife the other day. At one time, the pair of us were heavily into music. We’d go to concerts at innumerable places, from coffee houses to bookstores to stadiums. We spent a ton of money on CDs and such. Although there were some areas of our…
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A Variety
It’s a bit of advice I gave my child the other day while out on a walk: read a lot; read a variety. It took long into my 40-some years to learn that even for myself. Too often, reading becomes much like any form of entertainment in our lives. We read less because well… We…
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Price Drop
We’re all trying to do our part. Most of us are doing so simply by remaining at home, secluded from as much of society as we can manage while still functioning. Meanwhile, we artists and creative folk are trying to figure out ways of staying viable, making a living, or otherwise in light of the…