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BLOGGER COMMUNITY, NOT A WRITING COMMUNITY

The blogger community runs parallel to the writing community. From most vantage points, it’s looks similar, but it’s not. The biggest difference is accountability, and that means money, a question of either making money, spending money, or both. The correct answer is both.

CONFLICT WRITING: WHEN DOES IT HIT HOME

Conflict writing happens in every story, every movie, every book. Without conflict, there is no tension, and no reason to turn the page. Weak writing is a list, an inventory of boxes to check, instead of personal involvement. What’s the difference?

WRITING LIFE LOOKS FOR SMOKING WRITERS

Do people in the writing life smoke to show they’d rather die than change bad habits? Or maybe they secretly want to lose a few pounds, although Joan Didion may disagree. The writing life? Please. I hear that and think of droopy people sitting around typewriters with a pipe or cigarette stuck in their face. […]

WHY WRITING? WHY WRITE A CANCER BOOK?

This is gonna be short because I’m writing a cancer book. See what I did there? Didn’t say writing ‘my cancer’ book. Cancer book is more than enough. The whole ‘my cancer’ talk is a bad track. Who really wants to claim it like that. Instead, I’m giving it a good thrashing, plowing the cancer […]

WRITING THE BOOK I WAS DESTINED TO WRITE

An English major joke goes like this: I like to write poetry, but I suck at writing poetry. So I wrote a short story that was worse than my poem. To fix the problem I wrote a novel and it’s the worst yet, and this explains the deluge of bad writing.

Writing Advice To Colin Kaepernick From Boomerpdx

Who is writing books, or more accurately, who writes books that people read? A book no one reads is like a tree falling in the forest when no one’s around. Does it make a noise? One thing we know for sure, Colin Kaepernick has made a noise. By not saying anything. […]

Blog Relaunch Shoots Blanks, Misses Writing Target

Thinking of starting a blog, relaunching a blog? Good. If you’re a writer, then I’m talking to you. Whether you dabble with words, put a few things on paper, or carve out time to organize the book you’ve been writing the past few years, it’s you. The world of bloggers, columnists, […]

WRITING PARTNERS PLEASE STAND UP

Responsible parents? Responsible parenting? Writing partners? What’s is really mean? It’s more than a roof over their head and food on the table. And when does it end? We want answers, dammit, and not the easy ones. Too easy to say, “You’re eighteen, my jobs doe. Get out.” But you could and no […]

CANCER MEMOIR, WRITING THE EXTRA SECRET TABOO

Vice.com published a piece with a funny headline in 2012: Cancer Memoirs Are Breaking Out Like the Plague Now it’s 2017 and I’m writing a cancer memoir. Still funny? Yes, it is.

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BLOGGER COMMUNITY, NOT A WRITING COMMUNITY

CONFLICT WRITING: WHEN DOES IT HIT HOME

WRITING LIFE LOOKS FOR SMOKING WRITERS

WHY WRITING? WHY WRITE A CANCER BOOK?

WRITING THE BOOK I WAS DESTINED TO WRITE

Health Writing? Start With Cancer And Drill Down

Writing Advice To Colin Kaepernick From Boomerpdx

Blog Relaunch Shoots Blanks, Misses Writing Target

WRITING PARTNERS PLEASE STAND UP

CANCER MEMOIR, WRITING THE EXTRA SECRET TABOO

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