by Cyndi | Sep 12, 2016 | multicultural writing, Writing, editing, reading
This Monday night—September 12—author Debbie Frontiera takes on the world—and I get to help. We’re joined by author Larry Buege who has written about Native American culture in the pre-Columbus days at 7 p.m. at Portage Lake District Library in Houghton. The...
by Cyndi | Jun 6, 2016 | Art, improve your writing, painting therapy, Writing, editing, reading
“When I haven’t any blue, I use red.” — Pablo Picasso Keep the paint moving, says watercolor artist Donna Lenard, as about 20 of us flex our creative muscles on a rainy Saturday afternoon at the Holistic Center for mind, body and spirit in Chassell, Michigan. Donna...
by Cyndi | Apr 25, 2016 | novel writing advice, wordplay, writers, writing style guides, Writing, editing, reading
You may not immediately notice it as a reader. But there’s a reason a writer doesn’t put a T-shirt on the heroine in the first chapter, then have the boyfriend show his love by giving her his tee shirt a couple of chapters later only to have them go...
by Cyndi | Mar 28, 2016 | advice on writing a blog, Writing, editing, reading
This writing blog and my inspiration blog have an amazing following of cool people that I secretly (well, not now) refer to as Cyndi’s Superstars (thank you!). I wrote for two very different kinds of blogs at Michigan Technological University this winter: A Michigan...
by Cyndi | Feb 7, 2016 | authors, Writing, editing, reading
I’ve always wanted to go to Cuba and I used to envy Barbara Walters her Fidel Castro interview. But now that I’ve read Leaving Little Havana, a memoir by Cecilia M. Fernandez , I’d rather talk to her, a fiery journalist who could show me both her slice of Miami and...
by Cyndi | Jan 29, 2016 | Writing, editing, reading
Some writers find research tedious. Not me. And not author KC Mead-Brewer. She serves up some tasty links, from a modern-witch reference book to the national park service website, for those of us who love to wallow in...
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