• The Birth of a Blog

    Back in late December, I started writing a book.  Roughly a month later, the first draft was complete.  I printed the first draft and set it aside to simmer for six weeks (advice I’d gotten from reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing.)  The reason for putting my manuscript aside, and vowing to not read even one paragraph of it, was to separate myself from it long enough so that when I went back to do the first read and edit, I had forgotten most of what I wrote, and could look at it objectively.  That advice turned out to be great advice, as did most of the advice King gives in On…