Welcome to the next post in The Adventures of Roland! You can find all the previous posts in Roland’s escapades here. Each installment typically comes out around once a month or so – although admittedly that has not been the case as of late. Also in case you aren’t aware, …
Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere) – ee cummings from Spring is like a perhaps hand Hello dear readers!!! You may have noticed that my posts have been MIA for some time now. My sincerest apologies in this regard. I’ve thought of posting often …
The greatest thing by far, is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblance. – Aristotle, from Poetics When I was in college a poet came to visit …
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson, from “Ulysses” In my series on How To Write Everyday, Step 1 is Inspiration. And …
I started really thinking about writing my first novel nearly three years ago. Let me just say that it has been a long and winding road since then! When I first came up with the idea, I focused on the commercial nature of the story, if it could sell, if …
