Mirka Muse

  I picked this question from Karen Jones’ post on the list of questions she’d like to ask writers:   If you have written your book, do y...

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 How do you deal with the (frankly endless) home improvement challenges? Warning, this is one big (pictorial) KVETCH. So, once upon a time i...

  Yup. That^ I have friends who talked about writing. Not about “being a writer” but about the specific stories they were going to write. ...

  The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind. Because it depends on who you ask. So, what makes a truly great story? For many, it’s...

  I see this question on writers group chats. Should I have a book launch party? Where? How? Is it a must?   I really like this post by ...

  Email changed many things. The word mail shouldn’t be confused with the mail of yore.   For one, email is supposedly delivered in seco...

  Up until the age of seven or eight, I believed that if I thought something up in my imagination, it became real.   A fine example was ...

  With the United States approaching another birthday, (our 248 th ) I got to thinking this line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which in its...

  A dear friend of mine was hurt, badly hurt, by the actions of colleagues who should have had her back. At the same time, she was going t...

  The longer I live on this earth, the more I realize that it’s the way to, rather than the end point, which is the real deal.   From re...

  Not long ago, I witnessed the best and the not-so-great aspects of human beings in the space of five minutes.   Trigger warning: This ...

  On this date, June 4 th , in the year 1939, the German ocean liner MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was...

  Even the word in English, SPRING, brings to mind a hop~ and a skip~ and a jump~---an upward trajectory.   Enjoy the uplift with a spri...

  History is written by the victors. So said Winston Churchill. Napoleon called it a fable agreed upon.   In my current WIP, a pre-teen ...

  Having just completed the fourth draft of my work in progress (=WIP) and with two beta readers’ feedback to help navigate the last two dra...

  A writing colleague who had beta-read for me (and I for her) and who, like me, had been on occasion paid to freelance edit, let me know on...