I want to thank Romance Writers of America for publishing my Letter to the Editor in this month’s Romance Writers Report (February 2019). My letter referred to two articles in the December issue that “encouraged” writers to be inclusive and embrace diversity. All well and good. Most writers accomplish that without making a point of it. […]
Reason for Writing
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of […]
Writing the Perfect Ending
Reposted from Classic and Cozy Books, published on June 27, 2017, in honor of Margaret Mitchell What’s in an Ending? Some of us write in a kind of stream of consciousness way. Some of us plot. Some of us outline. Some of us have an idea that writes itself. We all must find a way of […]
CJ Verburg’s Another Number for the Road
On my EverWriting blog, I’ve reviewed CJ Verburg’s mystery novel set in the Sixties and Eighties, Another Number for the Road, published by Boom Books this year. CJ Verburg is an accomplished playwright and director, writer and editor. She is a founding member of the Indie Publishing Group that meets in the Mechanics Institute Library […]
Where to Start
I’ve kept a journal of some sort since I began writing—a very long time ago. Although I cannot remember the first story I wrote enough to recreate it, I can recall the time and place of that first effort, as well as the excitement I felt at putting on paper and in words a story of […]