Write at the Light

My new article, Self-Publishing – How to Know If It’s Right For You is now available at EzineArticles.
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I’ve just begun to publish there and [...]

Point of view. It’s so easy and yet so hard.
It’s easy, because it’s just first person, second person (which is never to be used), third person. Pick one. Write.
But it’s more complicated than that, because they branch into alternatives, and the rules can be broken effectively. Third person can be omniscient, change from character to [...]

After complaining about bookstores yesterday, I found a story in the Bellingham, Wash., newspaper, Village Books making high-tech changes for customers.
First, the bookstore made the announcement through its newsletter, which a lot of bookstores have. But a good newsletter is way to maintain contact with customers. (“Good” being defined as more for the reader than [...]

I don’t enjoy bookstores very much.
Books are wonderful, and shopping for books is fun.
But the brick-and-mortar maze of volumes has “time sink” written all over it. I have spent hours in a bookstore with a paid gift card in hand and finally had to spend it on something, anything, just so that I wouldn’t have [...]

Pardon the dust. Just move that sawhorse and have a seat. Careful. Don’t sit on the jackhammer.
You’ve arrived at a sort of online college specializing in communications. This blog will contain my observations of all things having to do with writing and speaking.
Later I hope to add more curricula, but for now I’m implementing one [...]