My wife, a second-grade teacher, usually has her mind, even during her summer vacation, on school-related matters. Sometimes, that leads...

But a responsibility of Christian teachers is to instill in the students a loving and respectful acceptance of the Christian view of...

Here’s the Summer Reading Catalog from Southern Writers Magazine: https://view.joomag.com/summer-reads-catalog-2018-summer-reads-catalog-...

Home. There’s nothing like it, especially when one is returning to it after a long vacation. It’s not just a general coming back home...

“It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.” This goes back to what an earlier post said about the...

We’ve seen already how Napoleon Hill offered some good advice that writers can apply to the attitude they take toward their work. That’s...

In my last post, I mentioned that Napoleon Hill offered words of wisdom that could be applied to one’s writing. Among the quotations from...

In fact, I get a daily e-mail “thought for the day” from the Napoleon Hill Foundation http://www.naphill.org that has included numerous...

In our finite sense of time and events, we often lose our sense of perspective. We often mentally compress time and events without...

Lately, I’ve been reading a sadly ironic biography of a talented but confused author who spent his life trying to find himself. He...

I don’t think I’ve missed an election–primary, general, or run-off–since I’ve been voting. My first ballot I cast in a presidential...

But I’ve also seen this temptation arise occasionally in my writing career, and I was reminded of the lesson by an article in the latest...

It finally happened, just as I had long fear it someday would. Several times, I have blogged about having too much to read (for example,...

If a writer wants his or her message to be understood, one must keep the readers in mind and write to them on their level. Failure to do...

Precision in writing is as important to good writing as brevity. In fact, precision, and it’s cousin clarity, inevitably produce brevity....

This post is by my brother, whose oldest son (my nephew), Capt. Justin Peterson (USMC), was killed in Iraq. https://dalepeterson.wordpres...

The next stage for a writer who continues to evolve in his or her skills is learning to “cut the fat.” First drafts are enveloped and...

The lead, of course, is what the professionals call the first paragraph (sometimes a little more) of your piece. It is supposed to pull...

During that time and through all the ups and downs of my writing career, I’ve noticed seven recurring characteristics that editors seek...

If one is making progress in his or her writing, that writing is constantly changing in many ways. It will be changing in content and...