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Last year I entered a well-known writing competition on a lark. Unlike the lark, I’m not an early riser, and I confine my song to the solitude of my car with the windows rolled up and the stereo cranked up high enough to ensure that no one will inadvertently hear me, not even myself. So, my reference to the lark is done primarily on a whim, which is very meta if you think about it. So anyway, to continue the bird theme, I managed to write a short story in time to beat the c

A writer’s life is one of constant and unrelenting rejection. In many ways it reminds me of when I was just about to enter my teen years and starting to learn the ins and outs (mostly outs) of getting girls to notice me. It recalls the weeks of prep-work and mental loin-girding it took me to summon up the courage to ask Debbie if I could carry her books to our next class. Though it may come as a shock to you, the book-carrying was just a ruse. It was a strategy that might e

I attended an on-line writing seminar a few weeks ago and got a valuable piece of advice I’d like to share with you. The topic of the seminar was (not surprisingly) "How to Get Published". Is there any other topic that an unpublished writer is really interested in? I’m sure, like me, you’ve attended similar ones and listened to them with open heart and open mind, completely agog. Still, I always come away from them reminded of the old adage, “Nothing succeeds like success.” A