ClassicAndCozy

Quite often, we hear that someone or some idea is on the "right side of history." When I began talking about my project, Pavane fo...

We should be able to tell something about the speaker from a conversation. A person’s choice of words can be shorthand for characterization...

by Sandy Cody I once had the pleasure of interviewing Jane Hamilton (author of Book of Ruth  and  A Map of the World, to name just a cou...

by Victoria M. Johnson Of all the important holidays in June, National Selfie Day is gaining in popularity.   Invented in 2014 and celebr...

by Janis Susan May/Janis Patterson Every so often one of my writers' groups will conduct a workshop on 'how to create a cha...

For writers, it's not the image but the words that create the image in the reader's mind. Take for instance, this image:   or t...

By Karen McCullough For a while now I’ve heard the horrific stories about the destruction wrought by drunk, drugged-up, and inattentive (re...