Wordsmith Wanderer Prints

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."

Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Reader's Block.

'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

Torturing the English Language

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

"She's been so creative lately."

Edgar Allen Poe

First Novels.

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Cut Price

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

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

Backfire

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

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

Someone who knows apostrophes

Why we need poetry. . .

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket