Crumb – For speakers and writers
I was a young researcher giving my first talk. Mycoplasma DNA mapping, I think it was. The head of the center stopped by the lab a week before and gave me this nugget: tell them…
Writing
Crumb – Advice for writers
A crumb for writers. Hurry before the dog gets it.…
Writing Advice: Read before writing
I was reading something from my MFA list that included writing advice that I go to now almost daily: before sitting down and cracking your knuckles to start writing, lubricate the gray matter with a paragraph or eight from a favorite author.…
Making Internet life manageable for writers and doers.
How to wipe out 99% of all internet crap……
Not really getting away with it…
And that was it. I did science for most of my adult career, and wrote, too. Mostly long and angst filled governmental reports about our work. TS Eliot would have approved.…
Book Review – Writing Without Rules, Jeffery Somers
Being a writer, though, is so much more than just writing, and that’s what Somers addresses. He wants you to move you out of your own way and get you writing.…