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Words are spells. Writers are witches.

The dream: a tattered notebook bursting with snippets of fairy poems and the first paragraphs of a bewitching short story…

2021 A to Z: Letter B is for Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (Last Monday in January) In 1957, Engineers Marc

Like most things in life, there’s no “one size fits all” solution here. Every writer works differently and has different

Are you a plotter or a pantser? If you plot, do you use post it notes, grocery receipts, notebooks or

We’ve all been there at book club, ready to talk about the story, the characters, the plot… then silence. How

The Yellow Houseby Sarah M. Broom Published: 2019-08-13New York: Grove Press — Currently reading this for @BookNOLA club choice for

Welcome back for Literary Gastronomy, Part 2. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

Virginia Woolf, who placed much emphasis upon dining within her works, famously said that “one cannot think well, love well,

I’ve recently become enamored with the literary tours around the country that delve deep into the writing history of the

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

In the days of Westward Expansion, before the freeways and highways were taking us places quickly, waves of migrants were

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

Ever wonder where ideas come from? Do they come while you’re daydreaming, or standing in the shower? Do you have

March 2014 TedTalk by Anne Curzan “What makes a word ‘real’. One could argue that slang words like ‘hangry,’ ‘defriend’