Non-Fiction Writing

When you start to closely examine both print and electronic periodicals, it becomes apparent rather quickly that there is a lot of repetition in the material being published. It’s not plagerism, but the way the professional, commercial writing world works. What often happens is that a writer will come up with an original idea...

What I am going to tell you here will be obvious to some readers, but to others, perhaps not. There are two objectives that any piece of writing has, only two, and this is true for either fiction or non-fiction. All writing exists either to: 1. Educate (self or others); and/or, 2. Entertain (self...

Have you ever had a wonderful plan to write something, a scene or a section of your fantastic novel, and then not been able to carry it off? You know, you are on a long drive or out running errands and stuck in traffic and it comes to you, “Eureka!” you cry, “now I...

A writer friend of mine recently had a dilemma about a novel she has been working on for quite awhile. She’d written close to 700 pages of material and felt the story was bogged down but had some great scenes and parts. She wasn’t sure if she should abandon it and begin again. I...

There are many reasons people feel drawn to write. Why did the first of our ancestors pick up some burnt sticks and scrawl images on cave walls or make marks on wood and stones in the forests of the Celtic isles? My experience tells me that there are two elemental reasons people write: 1....