Using the Lag to Become Superb
A brilliant and successful writer once told me, “All writers secretly wish they were musicians or baseball players.” I don’t know whether that’s as true […]
Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen Keeps Working
As I read Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, I’m delighted, but not surprised, to find that he is a superb storyteller and a beautiful writer. Of course […]
Be Kind to Authors
Whistling in the dark, we sometimes call it, but it’s painful, hearing emerging and establishing writers speak self-deprecatingly of their work. We don’t hear that […]
Recipe for Writing (aka How to Bake a Perfect Muse Retreat)
Take one part beautiful island in BC (I recommend Bowen Island, the birthplace of Pulp Literature) and one part historic lodgings and add a gourmet […]
The Writing Life: All Systems Go
We’ve got to have great big goals to get us out of bed in the morning. But we need to set systems into place in […]
Publication Platforms for Writers: Fifteen Minutes Outside the Hermit’s Cave
Whether we publish through traditional means or independently, we’ll most likely want to think about creating a platform to support a writing career connects us […]
North Pole Blue
A Story by Bob Thurber This Christmas tale comes with a bite, as all Bob Thurber stories do. For more, go to bobthurber.net, and look […]
‘Better Watch Out’ by Anna Belkine
By now our subscribers should have received their digital copies of Issue 13, and many of the print versions have arrived at their destinations as […]
You deserve a writing holiday
For those of us who clock in at our keyboards and notebooks rather than stepping through the office doors every morning, ‘holidays’ are often a […]