My answer, dear people, is yes.  Not just because we are now all so wired into each other’s minute social movements via texts, tweets and status updates, but because we have always done business with people who we like, and trust.
Whether it makes strict business sense or not, if you take proposals from two people and one of them happens to mention that they are also a fan of your favourite sports team, or tells a joke that makes you laugh, or shares a personal experience that you can relate …

I am one of those people who believes that vindictive behaviour is never ok, even in defense.  Some people admire that as grace; others deride it as being a doormat.  Alice Hoffman is in the latter camp.
As a writer you have to expect bad reviews.  You don’t have to like them; you can rant and rave about the reviewer to your friends and family about the injustice of it all; you can even, perhaps, write an angry post or tweet to your fans.
You can not, however, express your hatred of …

My my, GetaFreelancer has certainly had a bit of a face lift since the last time I dropped by.   And I haven’t dropped by in a while.  The reason being that out of all of the freelancer sites that I have used,  GetaFreelancer jobs generally offer the lowest rates of pay around.  In fact, most jobs that I saw (not all, I hasten to add) were for those “peanut” rates that send even the most mild-mannered writers into frenzied tirades about minimum wages, comparative rates and the value of skill …

Music was my first love, so it’s not surprising that it can have a huge impact of my productivity, serving as a distraction or inspiration while I am writing.  For example, no matter how many studies are done on the intellectual stimulation provided by Mozart I for one can’t write a decent word with that danged harpsichord twanging in the background.
Perhaps it has more to do with the fact that with the odd exception of a particularly melancholy aria I have never been a fan of the 18th century soap …

We seem so desperate to crush our language these days.  It seems inevitable that in cramming our thoughts into 140 characters, and abbreviating the English language into a new staccato short hand for texting we are losing some of our lexicon.
Huge chunks actually.
And while many people will tell you that we can get by quite nicely on our limited vocabulary, I can’t help feel a sense of loss for the hundreds of words that die out daily.
Where is the campaign against the extinction of rare words such as ‘twixt’ and …