That's a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne. Or maybe Maya Angelou. Or Robert Louis Stevenson. Or Robert Seeley, or Robert Burns, or William Zinsser, or a number of other possibilities.
      Needless to say, I've yet to pin it down, but I believe it to be absolutely true. I invite you to step into the world of Easy Reading Writing and judge for yourself.

      I have taught a number of seminars and a class on Writing Good Fiction for the Smithsonian Institution. You can check that out in the Announcements on my home page by clicking on my picture.
      Click on the Easy Reading Writing cover for the skinny on the book. I have a couple of chapters out there to help you decide if you want to buy ERW, and I have an easy order link there as well. I've also added some readers' comments at the bottom of that page. Please take a look.
      A click on the BookMarc © logo will take you to a series of free discussions on fiction writing techniques.
      Finally, a click on the Painted Lady book cover will link you to Elderhostelmysteries.com and the scoop on the Elderhostel® Mystery series. Please see note on Elderhostel® trademark at bottom.
      And, oh yes, if you click on the Drum Point Lighthouse above, it will get you nowhere, but the real thing lives at Maryland's Calvert Museum about ten miles down the road from me.
      By the way, how do you like my site? My friend, J. Alec West helped me develop it.

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