D. Gene Strother @ April 22, 2008 # One Comment
Sometimes you get more irons in the fire than you can manage. OK, switch those two “you”s to “I.” Is it just me, or is it pretty doggone easy to say, “I am passionate about (fill in the blank),” and then let everything in the world get in the way of doing it?
Ostensibly, we are […]
D. Gene Strother @ March 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Last year we buried my beloved grandmother. She was a beautiful woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a dedicated Christian whose light shined as brightly as any I have ever seen. Watching my aged grandfather, who suffers with dementia, deal with the loss of his life partner moved me to write a fictionalized account […]
D. Gene Strother @ March 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Do you blog? I am betting you do. You are here, visiting The Write Crowd because you have an interest in writing, right? Why do you blog? For release? For fun? For family and friends? For money?
There are almost as many reasons to blog as there are blogs. Maybe it is passion about a particular […]
D. Gene Strother @ February 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I have been putting off writing this article.
(Get it? Putting off writing about procrastination? Come on. Smile. Or does it hurt too much to smile?)
Someone once said, “If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done.” They said it. I stole it…because, I live it every day. That is especially true concerning […]
D. Gene Strother @ January 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You don’t just want to be a writer. You want to be an effective writer. You want to be understood and appreciated. You want to be read! Clean living may or may not help with that. Clean writing will surely help.
So, in the spirit of keeping your nose (er, prose) clean, I share with […]
D. Gene Strother @ January 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A new year brings new hope, new opportunities, new resolutions, new challenges…
But a new year never seems to completely rid us of old baggage, does it? Too often, we cling to the same old excuses, the same old fears, the same old inhibitions.
You have a desire to write, but you fear failure. You plan to finally […]
D. Gene Strother @ December 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
How does a writer decide what to write? You have a gift. It has been verified by those who have read you. They tell you things like, “You oughtta write a book!” And you think, “Yeah! I oughtta write…something.”
But what?
Few things are more frustrating than staring at a blank piece of notebook paper or the […]
D. Gene Strother @ November 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Only forty-seven shopping days ’til Christmas! Of course, if you are a woman, and anything like my wife, you began Christmas shopping the day after Christmas…last year. So, you’re covered. If you are a dude, you don’t plan to shop until Christmas eve anyhow, and you have already set aside a whole hour to get […]
D. Gene Strother @ October 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Hey, there. Howdy. ‘Sup? And all that. Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the www-dot-world. Kick off your shoes and sit a spell. No need to hurry, even if it is the Internet and your finger is on the trigger (er, mouse button).
First, I suppose you wonder what I am doing here. Glad […]