Vacation till 9/3! 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Gone Fishin'! Vacation till 9/3. Blog dark, twitter unplugged!

Gone Fishin' Writing Contest results! 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

The last contest of the summer brought out some great entries! Herewith the results: Special recognition for winning the 2013 Claymore Award at Killer Nashville for best unpublished manuscript (whic...

The Gone Fishin' Writing Contest 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Vacation! Yes indeed it's time to hang up the Gone Fishin' sign and retire to reading books instead of manuscripts, turn off the phone, and put a padlock on the email inbox! To celebrate the start of...

Powerful writing: an example 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

"Learning to love is a task for a lifetime. We get to spend our whole lives learning to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and learning to love our neighbors as ourselves." That q...

Ring of Fire 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

The love story of June Carter and Johnny Cash from This American Life. Runs about 10 minutes (and is safe for work but there is music!)

Are you awesome? 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Of course you are. I am too. We're totally awesome, we are! Sadly, not everyone can be awesome like us. They probably don't even know how not-awesome-like-us they are. When one of those unfortunate...

It's a small world writing contest results! 19 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm

I'm having so much fun with these! I hope you are too! I really love how inventive you're getting with words and form. Herewith the results for this week's contest Special recognition for entries t....

It's a small world writing contest! 16 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm

So, how small a world is publishing? I knew it was small, but this week I saw another example of just how small. First, remember this blog post about Christi Corbett? She'd been part of the Chum Buc...

best airport sign in quite some time! 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Your single biggest asset on revisions? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Time. I've been trying to post more regularly.  One strategy is writing posts ahead of time. On those prepared posts, I re-read before publishing just to see if I missed anything. I'm amazed how oft...