Friday, March 25, 2011

Words Fighting for Their Lives

As a writer sympathetic to other writers' devices for choosing the right words to best express themselves, a letter to the Public Editor in the New York Times (March 20th) caught my attention.

"Franklin Roosevelt said that it took him an hour to write a one-hour speech. A thirty minute version took him two hours. His most difficult task was to create something that could be delivered in two minutes...that took the better part of a day."

p.s. Not only do we need to find the right words, they also need to be in the right order!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Book News

I'm happy to announce that Haberdasher's Daughter is a finalist for an Eric Hoffer Award.