A new start

A while back I mentioned that I planned to move the reader focused part of this blog over to my new website, http://www.clroman.com. Well, I'm doing it. The first posts are up and I hope you come join the fun. Just click on the link below. In the future, I won't be posting reader focused …

Three Types of Professional Editing and Why You Need Them

If you've been in the writing game for more than a week you've probably heard the following advice: Have your manuscript professionally edited. It's good advice. The Ailment(s) Writers who edit their own work face the pitfall of brain/eye dysplasia. It works like this: Your brain knows what it meant to write. Your fingers did …

End of Summer Blues

Well friends, it has arrived. The last, sweet taste of summer vacation is even now rolling around on my tongue, waiting to make its bitter-sweet way down my throat, and disappear forever. It might, even now, be the cause of a gentle rainstorm in my chest. Ahem. To recap for those of you who were …

Delete Philosophy

Recently my delete key stopped working. I don't know why. It just doesn't work any more. Until that happened, I never realized how often I use it. This turns out to be fortunate for my readers. Trust me. There's a lot of bad writing that y'all never see, thanks to the little delete key. I …

How to Make Poetry Fun for Children

Guest post by Leslie Halpern When I tell people I write children’s poetry books, perform with a poetry ensemble, and once worked with a Shakespearean acting troupe, they often roll their eyes and tell me they don’t like poetry. That’s usually because as children they never learned to understand the language of poems. Parents can …