I’ve heard about National Novel Writing Month for some years now, but always dismissed it, because I don’t need company while I’m writing. I don’t need the distraction of meetings, and I sure wasn’t interested in sharing my word count with anyone! Nor competing for a symbolic prize. But this year, I signed up, and […]
Two Dirt Roads, the Dalai Lama, and Me
So this is what I would have wanted the name of my blog post to be: “In Which the New York Times Associates Douglas Preston with the Dalai Lama, High-Speed internet, and Henry David Thoreau All In One Sentence.” But it’s too long, so I went with what I went with. And here’s what it […]
Indie Publishing and The Passive Voice
Of course, when I say “passive voice,” I don’t mean a writing style, in which the subject takes a back seat or is completely unknown. You know, like those statements Republicans make when they say that “bombs were dropped on some faraway country…” as if the bombs were dropped by someone or something not under […]