Lost in Words

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...

                                               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...

I noticed on Twitter X recently that authors will occasionally mention their word count for the day. Some are quite impressive, writing seve...

So, yesterday I decided to change the look of the blog layout and theme, and I think it now looks better. It has a cleaner look to it, no ba...

Things had started off so well. Last Tuesday, I wrote about 1500 words in my new WIP (Work In Progress). Listen to me using fancy terms to...

The Twelve Days are 25 December – 5 January, with the last day being Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve), and this is the final post of this series...

On Twitter X yesterday, someone mentioned the use of em dash in their writing, I wondered what it was. I had to look it up. A dash is long...

I didn't mean for there to be a part two to the writing itch post.  I hadn't planned it, but maybe it is something to do with the ti...

So, it's Christmas Day, and I'm writing a blog post.  It will just be a quick one today, because if you feel the urge to write, then...

I finished reading Cheryl Strayed's book Wild a few weeks back and have been meaning to write about it, a review. As often happens, oth...

  I must admit that I had never come across imposter syndrome until recently. I was on Twitter when someone, a self-published author, menti...