Mirka Muse

A good friend who is a thoughtful intelligent person let me know she considers all writers, actors, and artists to be too self-involved. S...

When it comes to what picture book publishers are looking for, there are general please-don’ts some editors and agents have posted over ...

On the last day of the last year, noon-time December 31 2017, Mr. Monk vanished. He left to go in the back yard, and I have not seen him ...

At the SCBWI meeting I wrote about in the last post, I had an interesting discussion with the younger writers near me. It was about curren...

There is a valid suggestion, not only for artistic creative folks but for all, to get out of one’s comfort zone now and then. The ...

We frame our reality is stories. We remember life’s occurrences not in the continuous minute details of everyday, but as episodes, or chapt...

How can you make your blog/tweets/Instagram/site/whatever catch on? As one who has never had a post take over the Internet by storm,...

There are a lot of ‘how-to’ books about how to become a writer, i.e. one who produces regular output of writing with the intention to publi...

The Jewish holiday Purim, celebrating the Jewish people’s (once again) salvation from mortal threat, starts tomorrow evening. How ...

...or, in this case— BEYOND THE FIREWALL L One of the many perils of the internet, like the rest of life’s realms, are the fakers, th...

So I woke up feeling frisky. I decided it was time to respond. This response is to the likes of which I (and every writer I know) had recei...

Or— Why “I just don’t have the time” doesn’t fly A dear friend who is an accomplished musician lamented that she has not been able to...

There is something ominously grim when I look at January 30 th ’s notable marks. On this calendar day in 1933, Hitler was sworn as chancell...

My last post was about web presence. This took me onto self- googling , now a verb. But in proper lingo, it could be any search engine. ...

I have seen this question posted on chatborards and elsewhere: should an unpublished writer have a website? If time is short, please ...

Working on the second draft of a new novel, I encounter the three H. (No, not Horrible, L Hairy, L or Hilarious. J ) Mine are HEADY...

Happy New Year But then, it’s just a number, Right? I think about it, and realize something. From now until the next new year, ever...

*a.k.a. Retunes (or exchanges) We don’t “do Christmas,” unless you count the general good wishes of Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays...

When a job application does not result in an offer, when an audition did not yield a part, or when a story failed to find a publisher, many...