Tag: Ernest Hemingway

• Monday Motivation: The Writer and the Altered Mental State

  Back when I wrote a weekly column for my home town’s newspaper, I took it upon myself to occasionally add a hefty dose of weird to my readers’ lives. Many…

• Wednesday Writing Tip: The Best Genre is the Genre Mashup

  This video, brought to us by the fine – and brilliant – folks at Postmodern Jukebox – is a stunning example of what I like to call a genre mashup.…

• Summer Reading Can Still Be Foundational Reading

  So I spent a good portion of the spring and early summer slogging through an exceptionally dense non-fiction tome on Napa Valley that was serving as background for a large…

• Black and White and Read All Over

  Writers can come from any number of backgrounds – just go down the list of famous authors and you’ll see a broad spectrum of “first” careers. But if you’re a…