The dreaded synopsis…

Hope everyone had a great week and you are writing like the wind. Past Cliches: Stark Raving Mad – Insane; “completely, wildly crazy” -graphic description of manic behavior.  Versions appeared since 16th Cent. Jonathan Swift’s Polite...

More Writing Time…

Hello Everyone! I know I’ve used the cliche time flies…but it does!  I’ve been so busy with Redwood Writers Membership, that it’s already time to write on my blog and I haven’t even written on my own stories this week!  Still have been...

Finding Time to Write

Hello Everyone!  Missed Friday again, but I was away. Cliches from June 7th: Clean As A Whistle – Thoroughly or neatly done, pure, unsoiled.  William Carr wrote in The Dialect of Craven (1828) this phrase meaning “wholly” or “entirely”. ...

Agent’s Day…

Hello everyone! Late Again in part to buy a new computer and getting used to it. Last clichés: Slow But Sure–Plodding but reliable. Dates early 17th century. Idea old as Aesop’s fable re tortoise and hare. Found in John Marston’s 1606 play, The Fawn....