10 Reasons Not to Be A Writer

Another funny share via  The Passive Voice  from  Book Trust. Would it be negative of me to say that these all sound pretty true? Or maybe only pathologically ambivalent if I do, since I'm about to release a new book in a new series. Well, that's probably another reason not to be a writer, even if it didn't make the list. Enjoy and a lovely Memorial Day weekend to all.

10 Reasons Not to Be A Writer

These Amazon Products Are No Joke, But the Online Reviews Are

A serious (not really) article about Amazon's creatively comedic reviewers. Great for a few hearty chuckles, if not for wise consumer choices. Courtesy of  The Wall Street Journal  by way of  The Passive Voice.

These Amazon Products Are No Joke, But the Online Reviews Are

An Ode to the Complex Sentence

An interesting and, ironically, short article in the Los Angeles Times by way of  The Passive Voice  on the reason it's a good thing not all modern fiction embraces the short, declarative sentence - an idea for which many would say I have an apparent (and extensive) appreciation.  Hats off to all writers who like to capture the human mind's tendency towards tangents, ruminative driftage, paradoxical ambivalence and addendums.

The point of the long and winding sentence