Three new wedding-related articles are now online.

23 Feb, 2022

Hi folks!

I have added three new wedding-related articles to the site; you can find them under the Weddings menu. They are:

- Advice for the Best Man Speech, by Casey and Kaylee York.
- The Role of Wedding Vows in the Marriage Ceremony, by Rev. Paul Shively. And...
- Wedding Officiant Speech Writing Services, also by Rev. Shively.

Mr. Shively is a retired pastor whose recollections about adventures as a wedding officiant had me laughing out loud. The officiant is the person who conducts the wedding ceremony. In the photo above, the guy in the middle is the officiant. Rev. Paul has accepted my invitation to join the writing staff. That means if you're going to officiate at a wedding and don't know what to do or say, he can help you.

Go check 'em all out. They're informative, useful and entertaining to read.

Three new wedding-related articles are now online.

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.