Just got back from residency orientation @ Seton Hill. It’s nice to be back, even if it meant driving 4 hours through snow. I had a great break, had a couple of good reads while I was off. First was John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, a very entertaining science fiction book. It’s …

I’ve been on break from school since beginning of November, so I took the opportunity to brush up on mechanics. Specifically, I took a much-needed browse through the old Elements of Style. Good little book. But, I wanted more. So, I found a more contemporary take on style, Sin and Syntax, by …

In the end, writing is like any other endeavor. Sure, there is a significant and compelling creative aspect to it, almost mystical at times. It doesn’t just happen, though. The magic comes through sweat and rigor. King lays this out in his final section of On Writing. His opinion is that there …