Every writer needs a break now and then. What could be sweeter than lunching poolside with a few writer pals?   As our waiter appeared with our salads, Crime Writer pointed at the pool. A lone... Read more >>

To be honest... yes!!! I want to be a writer who earns good money and I have dreamed of this most common civilized hobby always ... I’ve just never given it a try before. So guys, please... Read more >>

I have always thought of myself as a writer. I have files and notebooks of unfinished stories and poems; they are work in progress. I wonder if even one story will ever be finished ... am hopeful... Read more >>

I come from a broken family. Not divorce—my parents stayed together until death—but there was always so much fighting. I remember going in to my room and closing the door crying out,... Read more >>

It’s been said that “everyone has at least one good book in them.” Sure enough, since I started my small nonfiction publishing business in 2007, I get frequent inquiries from... Read more >>

This weekend I had a bout of writer’s block. I have taken up the glorious endeavor of writing a novel and there are some days when I am just spent. It isn’t going to happen. I stare at the... Read more >>

About Lynn Voedisch Lynn Voedisch is a Chicago journalist and fiction writer with many years experience working for newspapers and magazines. She is a member of the America Society of... Read more >>

A proof of my novel, Life is But a Dream, is scheduled to arrive in the mail today. In case you missed the point—a copy of my book (smelling of fresh ink and full of crisp pages) will be in my... Read more >>

I am in a perpetual state of perpetuity Where each word said and action done give form to opacity I blabber on incoherently Misnomers, a constant regularity As I try to wax poetically Pen to... Read more >>

YOUNG SAP Hark! Here enters the spawn of tree cutters. OLD GROWTH Nay, fear not. For he emerges empty handed – bears none of the lumberjack’s trait of steel jaw and fire. Bears not, some teeth… Read more >>