Christmas is six days away and my excitement has reached DEFCON Readiness Level II: Fast Pace or Red, meaning Santa’s arrival is imminent. For weeks, the sounds of the season have been streaming throughout my home, and by this weekend, when my niece and her roommate arrive, we’ll have a houseful of holiday cheer splitting the … More Book by Book
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand October 11th seems like a lifetime ago — a bygone era, the days of yore. A once upon a time when I still tread water and chased windmills on the same blog, before the split and … More I’d Like to Thank the Academy…
National Novel Writing Month Contributing author Lisa Cron and the good folks over at Writer Unboxed reminded me that November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, in case you’ve seen the acronym flitting around the pages of late. I’m not going to bother writing an article about it since Lisa did such a fantastic … More 30 Days and 30 Nights of Literary Abandon
M.L. Swift, Writer 