The Authorized Version

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]