Category Archives: writing
Author Interview – Cliff Feightner
Today, I’d like to introduce you to Cliff Feightner who has written two books to date and is at work on two more. His Views from Sandhausen was an interesting project from a design standpoint, as it was based on a couple of years worth of emails Cliff and his wife Lynn sent home to document their overseas assignment to Sandhausen, Germany, along with quite a few photos of their experiences. Continue reading
Author Interview – Oral McDanel
Today, I’d like to introduce you to a new writer who brings 96 years of life experience to her writing. Oral Husemoen McDanel, who has written two books over the last few years and is working on a third. I had the pleasure of designing the covers for those books, designing both as eBooks in Amazon Kindle and ePub formats; my wife created the artwork for her second book. Continue reading
Discouragement and Motivation
Over the last week, there has been a lot of discussion on the excellent Self-Publishing forum about self-publishers who, after laboring in the publishing vineyards for a couple of years, have yet to produce a vat of profitable literary wine. They’re discouraged and now wonder how they can get the necessary motivation to continue. Continue reading
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Are You Writing the Great American Novel?
I doubt that Hemingway, Faulkner, Heller, Vonnegut, et al set out to write novels that would turn into literary classics. No, I am sure they sat down at their typewriters (or with pen and pad in hand) to tell a story that seemed important to them at that time. Continue reading
Where Do Story Ideas Come From?
or me, story ideas come from everywhere…and nowhere. Sometimes, they just sort of pop into my head fully, or sometimes partially, formed. Probably that means my subconscious has ground up a lot of material gleaned from magazines, news items, TV, radio, other books, and people and events I encounter during the course of living life and then just produces some kind of literary hamburger. Continue reading
