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Throwback Thursday: Typewriter: An Old-Fashioned Solution for Modern Writers

Typewriter – Minimal Text Editor is a very simple ASCII text editor which runs on Java…
Spotlight: Duckett & Dyer: Dicks for Hire by G.M. Nair

I’ve been planning on doing a regular ‘Book of the Week’ post. Well, today is week…
Monday Motivation

Almost all writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
6 ‘Six Word Stories’ for the 6th (Vol. V)

I roll six story dice and I use these to inspire six stories, all exactly six…
Throwback Thursday: Sharleen Nelson Interview Omnibus

I was so excited at the prospect of revisiting Penstricken’s first author interview… so today I…
Monday Motivation

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
Super Snappy Speed Reviews: Children’s Edition (Vol. 3)

These reviews reflect nothing but my own personal opinions and impressions, reduced, flattened and shrink-rayed into…
Throwback Thursday: Ten Writing Commandments

First published 18/09/2016…. Behold my Ten Writing Commandments, humorously written in a crude approximation of ‘King…
Monday Motivation

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Review: Kim’s Convenience (season 1)

SPOILER ALERT Anyone who has not seen season 1 of the CBC TV show, Kim’s Convenience…