How I Started Blogging
My first blog was created in the fall of 2008. America was in the midst of a Presidential election, and debate was fierce. While showering I came up with a few ideas on how to solve the financial...
View ArticleFrom Seditionist to Blogger
In high school I authored and distributed an underground newspaper. I believe this was a step towards becoming a blogger. My friend Darren and I had the idea of starting a literary magazine, but we...
View ArticleRemember Life Before Memory Sticks: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference...
This past weekend I attended the Writer’s Digest Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. It just so happened that there was another Sheraton Hotel directly across the street. Two...
View ArticleRemember When Genre Was Genre: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference 2012...
All of the speakers at the Writer’s Digest Conference that I attended last weekend were excellent. One of them who stands out in my mind is Donald Maass, who spoke about writing for the 21st Century....
View ArticleRemember When Pitches Were Just For Movies: Digesting the Writer’s Digest...
After Donald Maass spoke about how to intensify novels and convinced everyone that the novels they came to New York to pitch needed to be rewritten from scratch, we were treated to the last speaker of...
View ArticleRemember When People Proofread?
Today I have not written a post. Instead, I have posted a graphic from Grammarly in honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the annual contest where you complete a 50,000 word novel...
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