At the recent authors forum in which I participated, the moderator asked us several thought-provoking questions. I summarized my responses to two of those questions (What influenced you to write? and What has been your greatest joy in writing?). In today’s post, I’ll answer two more of those questions. 1. Where do you get ideas for writing? 2. Why have you not entered genres like drama, fiction, or poetry? A rule of thumb is that one tends to write what he most often reads. I

Last Friday, I participated in an authors forum, or “talk,” during which the moderator asked seven or eight questions of the three of us who were on the platform. For the benefit of any readers who were unable to attend and might be interested in knowing my responses, I’m summarizing two of them here and will address two others in a later post. What influenced you to write? The initial impetus was my frustration as a second-year teacher with students who were unwilling to exe