"The Writer" by Michael Lynn Adams Updated 8/6/26 It is received wisdom that in order to get a book published you should start by p...

How blogging has inadvertently taken me towards a more positive approach of acceptance, with a focus on what’s good.

Hey, hey, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here with another underrated and/or underused comic book villain list. I intended to create an overall list of Underrated/Underused Batman villains, similar to early this month's Spider-Man list, but quickly found that Batman has way too many villains for just one list. Seriously. I compiled a list of almost fifty--50--villains. Not all of the villains were winners, but that left me with way too many for one or even three lists. I had to split up these villains. We'll begin with Batman villains who identify as women.

This September there are more than two dozen writing conferences and workshops. Some conferences and workshops will be held online, but most...

Read my diary entry for June 2019 — A pain pill, a caress and some space to breathe can help to relieve life with chronic pain a little bit.

This September there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes r...

No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.

A personal loan can provide breathing room during a financial crunch or replace higher-interest debt with an affordable, predictable repayment plan.

No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.

This article first appeared on Writer Unboxed By Erica Verrillo You’ve finally completed your book. You’ve had it critiqued – b...

Back in May, I published a blog titled “Eulogy for an Estranged Father” (linked here if you missed it). I don't mind saying I was overwhelmed by the response. My inbox was soon filling up with message...

'Twas late in the day, and the desperate writer    Did squirm and stare at his trusty laptop; All flimsy and miserable were his thoughts,    As he struggled to generate something startlingly...

What’s one thing about your writing that you would change if you could do it easily?

Writing habits grow from curiosity, small observations and steady practice rather than waiting for inspiration. Words come easier after showing up.

Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

After over two excruciating years of waiting, X-Men ’97 has finally returned for a second season! Disney+ didn’t update the name to X-Men ’98. This cartoon has the best premise! I…

No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.

History, travel, nostalgia and genealogy

Of all the movies I've watched recently, the one I'm moved to write about here, today, is The Devil Wears Prada 2. I don't think I ever expe...

(Pixabay:jmangi1) From the Aquarian Tarot, my first deck. Do you collect anything in particular? Before the move to Portugal, indeed, before my move to Maine from New Hampshire, I collected Tarot c…

During a backwards edit, you read a manuscript from the last sentence backwards to the first. As a consequence you focus entirely on the words.

To find out what was in fashion some 200 years ago, an excellent resource is  Ackermann’s  Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics which provided guidance for …

I wrote a letter to my characters, because they will always be with me, even after Vacancy is published, progressing through joy, pain, and growth, just like I do.

This article first appeared on Writer Unboxed By Erica Verrillo You’ve finally completed your book. You’ve had it critiqued – b...

If Virginia Woolfe was right when she wrote, “the truer the facts the better the fiction” in her classic A Room of One’s Own, there’s no better inspiration for writing a story than a true one. Find an...

Please yourself and you’ll find the readers you please.

It's frustrating when conversations turn towards works that have been published, because it excludes some writers from the conversation—even those who have been writing for years.