At her Harvard commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” I was so impressed with JK Rowling’s speech, as presented on TED, that I had to share it with you. It is 20 minutes well […]
For Readers
Life on the Farm / Spring Harvest
Just thought I’d share some pictures showing what’s happening on our dairy farm right now, so you know this writer has a life besides writing Part of our oat crop is being chopped and put into silage pits such as the one you see here to turn into silage for feed. A tractor pushes up and packs […]
Writing Tip / Morning Paper
Here’s guest-blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with a writing tip for generating a scene. When I think of writing a novel, I read the morning newspaper to help me generate and explore quirky ideas, so I can make my characters a little different from the run-of-the mill. It is where my imagination searches for an idea, big or small, […]
Versatile Blogger Award
Rosi Hollinbeck, at The Write Stuff, just awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award. She said she learns a lot from my blog about blogging and writing. This is such a compliment, because that’s one of my main purposes here at Enter the Between, to share what I’ve learned so far about blogging and in my ten-plus years of […]
Dash Off A Memoir / Easter Memories
Here’s guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with another installment of Dash Off A Memoir. Did you know that this year two Easters will be on the same day? The Greek Orthodox Easter greets the Christian Easter observance on April 24, 2011. It is unusual that the two fall on the same day (although in 2014, it […]
The Power of Words
I’ve always known that words have power. I’m a writer after all. But I don’t always apply what I know. With the titles of my blog posts, for instance. What a difference a title can make. More importantly, words have power as we use them every day; with our friends and co-workers, with our family, and with the people […]
