I attended the annual DFW Writers’ Conference this past weekend at Dallas’ Wyly Theater. I’ve come across a lot of praise for writers’ conferences, hearing about all of the help the critique groups and workshops provide, writers meeting their agents there, the camaraderie, etc. It was definitely something I wanted…
Or more specifically, five things to do in one day in San Antonio. My planned trip was cut short due to the weather, but there was still plenty to do. And as I explained, there was still also just the enjoyment of being somewhere different, with new places to explore…
I’m a believer of third time’s the charm. It’s seemed to work out well for me, and part of that may even just be the power of positive thinking. So I was hopeful that this past weekend when I went to Austin, with full intentions of seeing the bats, I…
I have quite a phenomenal book recommendation to make: A Rumor of War, a Vietnam memoir by Philip Caputo. I started writing this post before I’d even finished reading the book, and wanted to note that it has the writing, development and world-building of a great fiction novel. To see…
A friend of mine posted his reading list for the upcoming year, and I thought that was kind of a fun idea. It’s not something I’ve really done before. Sure, I have a pile of ‘to-read’ books, but I generally keep this physically small. And that pile is often added…
Last week I finished The Book Thief, spending longer and longer periods with its pages in each reading. It was one book in a very long time that I’ve wanted to skip forward to the end to find out what happened to the characters, those whose futures were not hinted…