I feel sorry for anyone who has to go through my laptop after I die, trying to look for all my writings. I have them spread all over the place in little snippets and larger files in so many different … Continue reading
Most people think that being a best-selling author means you never have financial worries again. Unfortunately that is just not the case for most authors. Unless you’re a big name or you have multiple best-selling books, you’re going to find … Continue reading
A few weeks back I ran across a blog or RSS feed that mentioned having a “Writer’s Totem”, a creature that would represent your writing (spiritually, I suppose) much as some people believe that they have a personal totem that … Continue reading
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.” Isaac Bashevis SingerNobel Prize-winning author Thank you for subscribing to The Word Of Jeff. This feed is … Continue reading
I am just getting around to reading the May/June issue of Poets & Writers and among all the usual good stuff is a small piece about the KEO Project. Have you heard of it? The KEO Project is a proposal … Continue reading
“The greatest possible merit of style is, of course, to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Thank you for subscribing to The Word Of Jeff. This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. If you are … Continue reading
Driving through the back roads of south central Georgia I spied a sign for a town named Dark Bay. Yes, in the middle of land-locked Georgia with no discernable body of water for miles and miles, a town named Dark … Continue reading
Over on the forums of Editor Unleashed, they’ve been polling writers for the past two months about their favorite books for writers. Here are what they have compiled as the 10 best books for writers: On Writingby Stephen King Plot … Continue reading
One of our writers in my department is a former journalist (actually two of them are, but the one I’m referring to is the most recent former journalist) who saw the writing on the wall a year ago and left … Continue reading
If you’ve looked around this page, you’ve seen the MAD About Words Lounge membership graphic over on the right hand column. MAD About Words is the brainchild of Winter Park writer and writing coach Mary Ann de Stefano (M.A.D., get … Continue reading
If you’ve read this blog for a while (or gone back through all the archives) you know that occasionally I get asked for permission to use photographs I’ve taken and posted on the Internet. And you know that I’m always … Continue reading
Here’s a lot of little things that aren’t lengthy enough to warrant their own blog post. There is a guy up here who does a syndicated traffic report for several of the radio stations and his voice sounds just like … Continue reading
So as much as I wanted to just hermit myself in the hotel room Sunday I just couldn’t see spending the entire day holed up like a prisoner. To begin with, I woke up earlier than I intended because of … Continue reading
My friend, Mary Ann de Stefano of MAD About Words, Twittered earlier this evening about a really cool site called Save The Words and I thought I’d share it with you. The basis of Save The Words is that every … Continue reading
Twice this week I’ve read the phrase “That’s not my strong suite” on two different websites. It made me cringe. And it made me scratch my head. The correct phrase, of course, is “not my strong SUIT” (soot) not suite … Continue reading
My friend Michelle Twittered me this little spelling jewel from a feed she gets; “not that I’m byast, but you should stay at MGM Grand” That arrived almost at the same time that an RSS feed showed up in my … Continue reading
Astute observers will notice some new additions to The Word Of Jeff blog, but for those who have better things to do than look over this blog’s design contents or who read it via RSS, here’s a short rundown.Quotes Widget … Continue reading
Cindy and I spent all day last Friday cleaning our respective home offices, but there was one tiny little difference in the final outcome; I was cleaning mine out for good. It’s akin to Superman closing down his Fortress of … Continue reading
Over at Grasping for the Wind, John Ottinger has provided us with what is probably the most comprehensive list of science fiction and fantasy book reviewers on the Internet. Thank you for subscribing to The Word Of Jeff. This feed … Continue reading
Another memoir due to be published in February of 2009 and in line to be chosen by Oprah Winfrey as a future Oprah Book Club choice has turned out to be a hoax. “Angel At The Fence – The True … Continue reading
