by Patricia Bradley, @PTBradley1 Happy 2020! I’m sure you’ve all joined the gym and started that new diet…No? Hmm. Might not be a bad idea if you’re a writer. You do …
Coping With Stress and a Tight Deadline
by Patricia Bradley, @PTBradley1 Thanksgiving is behind us, and the Christmas holidays are barreling toward us like a tsunami. And somehow we have to fit in things like deadlines, edits, and …
Are You in the Ring?
by Patricia Bradley, @PTBradley1 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done …
Would You Take the Journey?
by Patricia Bradley, @PTBradley1 If someone had told me way back in the dark ages when I first picked up pen in hand to write that it would take thirty-two years …
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A PARAPROSDOKIAN?
by Patricia Bradley, @PTBradley1 I love figures of speech like metaphors and similes, malapropos, paraprosdokians–—wait a minute. A para-what? McMillan Dictionary defines a paraprosdokian as a figure of speech in which …