Lost in Words

  An idea crossed my mind. Writers often move through life with a slightly different perspective from everyone else. It is not necessar...

  Have you ever said, or heard, the words, “… last night I was burning the midnight oil ”? Burning the midnight oi l, or to burn the midn...

  We have all been there. You try something new. You plan it carefully and put in all the effort. And then it fails. So, it’s back to the dr...

It has been around six months since I left Medium (you can find out why in this six part series —  The Truth About Medium) . I no longer po...

  Every writer is told, sooner or later, to find their authentic voice . That we should try to write true to the person that we are. For me,...

  A writer rarely enters a room without quietly taking notes. Not with pen and paper; that would be too obvious, but with something far more...

  I recently caught a winter cold , which turned into an infection ,  or it came with it, just before Christmas. It was just a cold, or so I...

I never used to check my writing with an AI detector before joining Medium . And even when I first published on the platform, I didn’t chec...

In 2022, I wrote a book called Son of My Father. I remember the moment the title came to me. I was pacing around my home, thinking — search...

  Welcome to the modern age. The age of the short attention span. Was the last sentence too long? Maybe so, but it was shorter than this one...

Do you have a happy place? A place you can go to where you feel better just by being there? I found a happy place, and it was on my doorstep...

                                               Until recently, I was not aware that Tipp-Ex, the correction fluid , was still available. I h...

I decided to find five English proverbs that best describe the writing journey.                                             Free image by Qu...

I had a moment yesterday, when I started to question what I was doing. It was very specific, concerning a project that I have been working o...

I am struggling to find the time to read any of the books on my "to read" list.  The struggle exists because most of my spare time...

The following article and story can be found on Medium. The Grammar Check   I have, what you might call, a love-hate relationship with gramm...

Well, that looks ominous.  I had finished writing, and I thought to myself, I will stop there for now.  Then I looked at the word count.

It has been a while since I posted, but I do have an excuse. Well, two excuses, actually. First, I have a book to write. Well, I'm tryin...

There are times when you just have to write. Last night a scene came to me out of the blue, and I just had to write it down because otherwis...