As the year end and new year approach, I thought it was a good time to discuss a year-related word and deal with something that has bothered me for a long time. The word: anniversary. What bugs me: the way too many people misuse it, as in “first-year anniversary,” or “ten-year anniversary.” […]
Happy holidays, all readers, whichever holiday you are celebrating, or not celebrating. I would also like to extend especially positive wishes to those who get very little attention at this time of year: those who choose or, or have to work on these days so many consider special. These are not just nurses and police […]
Written Words has whined about technological bugs before, but here’s a warning: don’t always believe the network when it tells you it does not recognize your password. I have gone through this problem periodically: I come down to the computer in the morning, try to check my email, and get a message that either […]
Exodus, Christmas and other mythic narratives I’ve been reading a lot about “narrative” in news and social media lately. Not as in literature, as in a story arc, but narrative applied to public discourse about current events. The narrative of global warming, for example, is now being derided by climate change deniers. In other […]
The audience for this blog has reached another record high point: in November 2014, more than 20,000 people viewed a page. Three times during the month, daily numbers reached or exceeded 1,000, and the all-time number is approaching 400,000. In fact, I fully expect to reach that by next week. If things keep going the […]
The multi-talented author David C. Cassidy has completed his third book. He’s releasing The Dark, a very creepy, scary and riveting tale on December 15. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon right now. What’s it about? It knows what you want. It knows what you need. In denial over his father’s death in a horrific […]
Writing the first paragraph of anything is always difficult, because there’s so much pressure. That first paragraph, even more so, the first sentence, has to do so much: set the scene, get the story moving and grab the reader’s attention. But I took a lot of pleasure from that pressure last week and wrote […]