Why – the Stickiest Word of Story-Telling

Why – the Stickiest Word of Story-Telling

Albert Camus once said, “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Flannery O’Conner said, “I write to discover what I know.” https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com Authors across time and distance have had many reasons to write....
What Logline Entices You, the Reader, Most?

What Logline Entices You, the Reader, Most?

Logline One for STASHES “Baby Boomer retirees gallivant around the country in a Winnebago, leaving the family farm in the care of their hapless son and his conniving wife. What could go wrong?” Logline Two for HASHES & BASHES “A charismatic outsider arrives on a...
Marketing Advice: Find Your Target Audience

Marketing Advice: Find Your Target Audience

When I began writing as a hobbyist in 2010, I didn’t predict the endeavor as encore career. I just wanted to have fun. After all, I adored my speech-language pathologist practice: I gave for living. I’d lived a purpose-filled life long before Rick Warren made it a...
Busy Vees

Busy Vees

My husband and I enjoy meeting people. I’ve often been called a social butterfly, and he’s one, too. In proper male terms, of course. Honest interest in others is infectious; it gains us many acquaintances and friends. In any conversation’s opening...
Campaign

Campaign

I have been on a personal campaign, a vigorous solo force to recruit young men and women into the fold of speech-language pathology, the core of a legion of fixers of communication. Yeah, we all know about the role of psychologists and marriage-family-child...