In last week’s post, we considered some of the most helpful advice about writing. But, as I mentioned in that post, everyone is a critic,...

Someone once asked what pieces of advice have helped me most with my writing. After contemplating the question for a while, I think I’d...

Zinsser was born October 7, 1922. Following service in the Army in North Africa and Italy during World War II, he returned to the United...

[From Combat! Spiritual Lessons from Military History by Dennis L. Peterson, available on Amazon at http://ow.ly/ZXQ350xX9mx] #writing...

Today, I take a brief glance backward to August 28, 2015, when I posted this article, my first effort at blogging. Much has changed since...

In the previous post about static, we discussed the importance of logical organization to producing clear, static-free writing. Today we...

“The transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next, Sun Tzu taught, was the key to long-term military success. . . . [The...

FIRST, A REMINDER: Southern Writers magazine is featuring the first of a two-part article about my book Combat! Spiritual Lessons from...

Before getting into the subject of this week’s blog post . . . A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! In my previous blog post, I discussed the danger...

I remember hearing my Nannie Summers comment that time flew faster and faster as one got older. I never understood that as a child. It...

Mathis, Jim. The Fourth Quarter (Overland Park, Kan.: Mathis Books, 2018). Paper, 102 pages. Available https://jim-mathis-writerjimmathis...

Often, we cannot truly appreciate someone or what they have experienced or done until we’ve walked the proverbial mile in their shoes. In...

“Write what you know.” “Your writing becomes like what you read.” Since I began writing for publication back in the late 1970s/early...

I suspect, however, that for many attendees a better name might be Ignite2Write, because they often leave the conference inspired to...

I’ll soon be leaving the safety and security of my writer’s cocoon and venturing well beyond my comfort zone. And for an introvert like...

Lately, I’ve been mulling what I should title one of the books on which I’ve been working. Now that the manuscript is finished and ready...

Something happened to me yesterday that some people might be tempted to call a miracle. No, I’m not about to say that I walked on the...

As readers of this blog already know, I tend to prefer reading nonfiction over fiction. But they also know that I’m trying to break out...

The wheels of the publishing machine often turn slowly, especially when an author is awaiting an editor’s response to a submission or the...

Perhaps you recall the famous lines about “the best laid plans of mice and men.” Often, the flow of “normal” life events tends to...