Writers - Never Throw Anything Away

Writers - Never Throw Anything Away: "This is to protect yourself. Ideas are like fine wine, they need time to ripen and mature to full value. In this day and age of inexpensive RAM for computers, dirt cheap hard drives, and dirt cheap CD backup, no other writing activity is as important as the backup of files. Even your deletions in the editing process, don’t just toss your ideas off into the never-never land of the Ether; instead copy and paste them to a file called- - “Editing snippets from (- - - - - -)”."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

Writing About The No Excuse-We Just Love to Party- Party

Writing About The No Excuse-We Just Love to Party- Party: "Ironically I wrote my original notes for this piece at a Christmas party. I wasn’t feeing particularly Scrooge-ish, neither was I foaming with ebullient Christmas Cheer. In fact, I’d not yet even had a single beer to drink. We had arrived early, it was still daylight out, the sun was not yet past the yard arm, and I had little to do. I wrote some notes in the back of my rapidly expiring calendar."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

Trash, Sell, or Pack and Keeping Your Marriage Intact

Trash, Sell, or Pack and Keeping Your Marriage Intact: "Getting ready to relocate one’s life location, again, in your sixties, is not a fresh stack of pancakes. It is more like chewing on hockey pucks. This is mid December. In mid October, to beat the Christmas rush, we sent 46 various sized boxes ahead to be stored for our arrival in our new location."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

How to Plan to Guarantee a Perfect Vacation

How to Plan to Guarantee a Perfect Vacation: "n one word: plan. In a phrase: know yourself and plan. By failing to plan, you plan to fail (to have a perfect vacation). The first step is an honest personal assessment. You have to seriously consider and firmly decide what it is that your mind and body needs from a vacation. Then you have to do it."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

I Do My Writing in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot.

I Do My Writing in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot.: "I do my writing in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

My wife likes to shop, I’d really - - -rather not.

She’ll stay inside ‘til she’s ready to drop.

I sit in the car, watchin’ the folks come ‘n go, the flow never stops."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...