Red Room Where the Writers Are

I'm destined to become a fine and portly fellow if the dignity behind my Dashed Hope Fund idea is ever recognized.

I once had the travel section editor of a fairly famous newspaper treat me rather poorly over a story she had agreed to purchase and publish, which led me to recognize the irrefutable fact that the

While digesting on Thanksgiving I sat down with a photographer friend of mine (http://www.louiskapeleris.com) and talked with him about the convergence

My whole life I have had to battle the demons of sleeplessness. In fact, one of my earliest memories is of regularly having trouble with sleep.

As I worked on a book proposal for a nonfiction book that I would like to write it became obvious to me that I needed to better hone what the book is about. It is not a broad subject.

There is a certain truism to the fact that writers perhaps are a sleepless bunch. We are either rising early in order to catch the morning light, which is something of a salve for writer's block.

With the economy the way that it is freelance writers are going to have an even tougher time than in the past recession at making a living.

Here it is Friday and I obviously have decided (it being a full six days after the fact) that this is not the year to try to write a novel in a month. What a relief!

Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of being a ghost writer of books is trying to always keep in mind the vision the author has for the material, even when the research may lead you astray.

So, in my first two blog postings I seem to have been on this kick about journaling, which is something that is a good things to do and comes highly recommended, but also something I have a lot of