In third grade, in the middle of music class, Ms. Traylor asked me to sing, then play the recorder. Amid the din of classmates warming up...

Settling down in the writing sanctuary where words and ideas flow like... hold on, the cat found—and ate—a moth. Now, the cat is...

I quit my job in 2016. After fifteen years, I’d had enough corporate life. But, I also felt if I stayed on the job longer, I’d regret it,...

Unfortunately it includes marketing. Our latest feeble attempts follow, as does how we became a writer. https://www.veriteventures.com/po...

When self-publishing—if you market your own work—you are basically starting a marketing business. Today, marketing seems focused on...

I’ve started writing Insecticide Two. I put sixty hours into the outline, felt good about the path forward, and excited to write a...

I completed an outline version this week. I read the outline aloud after finishing to see how it sounded, and how quickly and simply it...

My outline for Insecticide 2 is growing—up to ten pages—but so is my To Do list. Bullet items seem to be spawning bullet items at this...

When I was in grad school, every semester at least one professor would read the syllabus aloud during the first class—grad school...