Mirka Muse

  A relative had recommended a series, and after watching the first episode I let him know I didn’t think I’d watch the rest.   He was a...

  Paraphrasing question #23 on the same list of better questions to ask a writer ,   I decided to have fun today. I mean, the question itsel...

  There is a romantic notion that a writer must have a special place to write. I recall a question a friend asked when we talked about proce...

  There’s a notion universally acknowledged that the one thing a story must do is arouse the listener/reader’s curiosity.   This goes tr...

  I have friends who testify to many started but never finished manuscripts. Their virtual drawer bursts with the begun & abandoned. ...

  Creatives have answered the title question differently but, not surprisingly, some patterns that seem near universal emerge. I have frie...

  ’Tis a truth, which should be universally acknowledged, that life and death on this earth does not parallel life and death in the digital ...

  Aye, that is the question* *(Maybe not THE question, but A question)   Alas, we use “google” as a verb now for “internet search.” Th...

            My first post for this May, and the phrase “Mayday! Mayday!” rushed in.   So I followed it to its supposed origins, which I...

  For reasons I can only describe as ignorance of consequences, lack of vision, lack of understanding how publishing works, and a touch of e...

  * The  definition  of  kryptonite  is Superman's ultimate weakness, or anything that causes someone's ultimate weakness. An examp...

  Reflections on First Drafts   There is a notion floating in writerdom that first drafts are garbage, bad, something to be overhauled, ...

  Question: How many of your story characters are from your real life? Answer: All of them Answer: None of them Answer: All of the abo...

  “ What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet ” From Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare   ...

  One may ask the same question in the title^ about actors or fine artists. Where in the artistic process and being does emotionality fit? ...

  The question is evident in plenty of interviews, posed to published authors. It’s a variation on “what would you tell your younger/pre-pub...

  You’ve heard the question, no doubt. If you could tell your younger self anything, what would it be? Process isn't just the thing. I...

  A good friend who is a prolific reader but doesn’t write asked me a variation of the this post's title question. Hers was more along...

  Writer’s Block is a famous phenomenon even those who never write fiction have heard about. It’s depicted in movies about writers and plen...

  Different folks struggle with different stretches. We’d be gingerperson-cookies if this weren’t so. But then, there are the life patches t...

  I found this question on an internet post about questions  that are not clichéd, which you might want  to ask writers. Unlike these quest...

  This morning, while steaming milk for coffee, I removed the sort of skin that formed on the surface before using a whipper to make a homem...