Wordsmith Wanderer Mugs

John takes a personivacation.

'Number 19 across, 5 letter word, starts with 't', ends with 'h'...' 'How about truth?'

'I'm not sure where I'm going with this but so far I have 'A is for Anthropoid'.'

Blogosphere, stratosphere, atmosphere.

Free-Range Authors

"I started in advertising, then I wandered in the desert for forty years. Now I'm a screenwriter."

'What luck! I was in need of some synonyms to punch up this speech.'

The Writer

"Your manuscript is utter trash, of course. How does a half-million first printing sound to you?"

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

First Novels.

"She's been so creative lately."

Edgar Allen Poe

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Backfire

A Copy Editor and His Dog

"Let me slip into something a little more thoughtful."

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

Cut Price

Someone who knows apostrophes

Why we need poetry. . .

What's normal?

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

'How do you plead, in twenty-five words or less?'