Eureka Wrote

We all know that we need to make characters sound different, we need to be careful with dialect, and we need to use appropriate vocabulary. ...

  Somedays you're the statue, somedays you're the seagull. In my year of rejection, I'm taking a blog break to concentrate o...

[Here are my thoughts on Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, for the Progressive Book Club.] Why, oh why, would anyone dedicate a chapter to ma...

March's lighthouse: Le Phare de Kermorvan, Brittany, France. (Original photo by McPHOTO.) Are you a round lighthouse , or a squar...

Friday is International Women's Day. I'm not about to launch into a political discussion, but I will say cheers to the ladies of li...

What exactly is rhetoric ? To me, it's what a speaker or writer uses to get the message across, usually, with added effect. It's ...

Edgartown Lighthouse, Martha's Vineyard. Original photo is by Paul Rezendes Back in January, I set sail on my journey of rejection...