Death lead to focus and clarity
A lot has happened since I last wrote for My Musings. After a long illness, I lost my father on January 1, and then had to care for my ailing mother and all the minutiae that follows a death. With my mom’s improved health, I am returning to my life as a writer, like a crocus…
Are you afraid to be yourself?
This is the second of a two-part series on overcoming fear. Part 1 of the series discusses how I overcome my of heights. Here, I explain how I use that technique to conquer my fears to overcome my inner demons and become a FEARLESS writer. I envy the writer whose words embrace me, make me…
Use voice to breathe life into nonfiction writing
This is the third post in a series on voice. The first is Are you courageous enough to find your voice? The second is Using voice in nonfiction writing. “There are no boring subjects, only boring writers.” ~ Barry Lane I want to write travel memoirs that read like fiction. I want my readers to become…
Using voice in nonfiction writing
This is the second post in a three-post series on voice. The first is Are you courageous enough to find your voice? The last is Use voice to breathe life into nonfiction writing. Voice is important to all genres of writing, but, according to Richard D. Bank, “In writing nonfiction, the voice is critical because…
Are you courageous enough to find your voice?
This post is a first in a three-post series on voice. To read the second post see, Using voice in nonfiction writing. The last post is Use voice to breathe life into nonfiction writing. Recently, I listened to Todd Nordstrom, a guest speaker on the Libby Gil radio program. He is the CEO of the…
Three Ways that writing my first book has changed me.
Writing a nontechnical book was never one of my life’s goals. Whenever people found out that I was a technical writer, they would inevitably ask when I was going to publish my first book. Apparently, in their minds, technical manuals are not “real” books. Though my life is chock-full of unusual experiences, I did not…