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Eternity Squandered

Back before the collapse of communism in Poland, the...

DOGE targets a community service program in its latest cost-cutting effort

A 30-year-old community service program that sends young adults...

Average US rate on a 30-year mortgage climbs to 6.83%, highest level since late February

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the...

Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists are trying to measure the claims

Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of...

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.

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.

Writers’ Corner

I received a note from a writer who wishes to remain anonymous. She has submitted her book to several agents who like it but can't find a publisher. "Too short" is their response. She insists that the book is a short novel and doesn't understand the rejections.

Why are some books more popular than others

The question has come up many times in my writing career. Frankly, there are no specific answers. One day, fiction tops the chart; another day, non-fiction does. When "Gone With the Wind" was published, writers started clicking on their manual typewriters to emulate other sagas, and so it went.

Why write?

Edna from Murrieta surprised me with the question: "Why would any sane person want to write? It seems so hard and depressing."

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