By: W. Diane Van Zwol | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking Humor : Channeling Butterflies and Dragons "What a wonderful world this is to explore!" the new read more
By: Carolyn Lecomte | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking The Midnight Muse and Chicken Lips I''m a writer and a reader, and some of what I read is about the read more
By: J.R. Pittman | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking To the Avid Author: ~I hope that all your endeavors are going well and your muse is constantly at your shoulder. read more
By: Lissy Jones | 2010-05-31 | Writing & Speaking The power of words "The putrid stench of your thoughts hovers" and then come two adverbs that I don''t understand "in the air as you walk into my void. Your nothingness covers my body and my" three more adjectives foreign to me " mind with" a noun that I''ve never heard before. read more
By: Jim Wood | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking You-Foo Report Marge weighs in at about 150 pounds. This put her at a disadvantage with her two previous husbands that liked to do boxing practice at home. Neither one of them ever got a punch in but the experience sharpened Marge''s reflexes. Just one frying pan and you are out for the count. read more
By: John Stall | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking "Unpublished writer ." I like that. Give me a moment to write that down on the list, just below read more
By: Youngbear Roth | 2010-05-28 | Writing & Speaking What does an acquiring literary executive read for when passing judgment on our work? A writer''sread more
By: Nathan Wada | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking "It was a dark and stormy" "Twas a dark and stormy" "It was the darkest of times, it was the stormiest of times" "When in the course of dark and stormy human events " Y''know, Snoopy had something going for him there. read more
By: Clarkson Wroe | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking A SUITABLE SUBJECT FOR A BEST SELLER! The following article is about the strong desire to begin writing but agonising over the subject matter that actually gets you started. Everyone has at least one book in them so it is said. read more
By: Sharon Jenson | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking honestly, I cannot think of anything. Would this be writers block? No, just a lack of humorous times to read more
By: Dan Hiland | 2010-05-31 | Writing & Speaking The Writer Speaks Earlier this month I had occasion to talk with Bertram Owen Woolsey, prolific read more
By: William Cobbs | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking Paris, France and reunion with my college roomate, Bob Cannaday. As the great writers say, "it all read more
By: Lisa Ashurst | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking The Unknown Writer (The Pitfalls with Starting from Scratch) Desire: The state of mind that haunts read more
By: Simon Wright | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking Often poets strive to cultivate the pained visage of a tortured artiste and spend their hours holed up in their study trying to come up with the masterpiece that will fully express their inner pain. read more
By: Ethel Ashe-Frear | 2010-06-03 | Technology Computer Problems! I posted my most recent article with a chart in the story. It looked good in my Microsoft document, everything lined up. I did a copy and paste; chart looked fine when copied it over to the submission screen. read more
By: Christine G. | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking APOLOGIA EDITORIALIS ("in defence of editors") Editors don''t go over to the dark side all at once, you know. They are nudged there bit by bit, one submission at a time. The slush pile is a big part of it. read more
By: Jim Wood | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking A penny for your thoughts. I was surprised to see that a couple of my articles were awarded a penny. This was not my goal when I submitted my few things to Helium for publication. I am not at all sure how to react. A thought like a penny saved is a penny earned. read more
By: Shannon Lausch | 2010-05-30 | Humanities as many writers can attest, humor is hard to achieve, especially in the form of words on a page. read more