The First Word(s)
I follow several writing and author discussion forums. I’m mostly a stalker, watching what others ask and then following as the next fifty posts go from informative and morph into […]
Steinbeck on Writing
I found this article written by John Steinbeck in 1963: Dear Writer: Although it must be a thousand years ago that I sat in a class in story writing at […]
Sitting on Cannery Row
In 1998 I lived in Northern California, right in the belly of Silicon Valley. I worked at a typical start up, based in an old house without heat or air […]