How do you become a writer?
I came across a book in my vast library, written by a Santa Barbara Writers Group. Writers love to be discussed, so I’m sure they won’t mind me paraphrasing some of their work. The question was: “How does one go about becoming a writer? That is the eternal question.
Better to be safe than sorry
President Harry Truman once said, “The lessons of history we don’t learn can come back to bite us. How quickly we forget things in politics. One thing I never forgot is the 1948 presidential election. The media were all agog over New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey beating “Give ‘em hell” Harry Truman.
Hemet Historic Theater gets a new general manager
You know the name, but you can't place it. If you're any kind of sports fan, you recognize it immediately. Alexander Yepremian's uncle was an NFL star, and his father was the head of a New York Soccer League.
You don’t know diddly-squat about writing
Welcome to the club. I never knew a writer who just sat down at a desk and a typewriter (or computer today) and wrote a perfect thousand words. We all learn the hard way: "Write one word, one sentence, one paragraph at a time.
WRITING FOR THE HOLIDAYS
I recently received an email from a young man in Temecula who asked if it was too late to write stories about Christmas. I'm letting him know now that magazines are filled to the gills for Christmas and New Years.
