Poetry is a mysterious combination of images, sounds, reflections prompted by reader and writer, a rhythm of thoughts conveyed in expressive phrases to convey subtle or blunt messages. Poetry is a challenge to the uninitiated and a rewarding experience to those who revel in imagination.Times change. Some disparage the simple rhyme. Yet the sing-song effort of positioning image with image tickles the imagination, spurs the memory, and prompts recollections of other times and other feelings. Rhyming, when forced, results in cheap efforts to create images or phrases based on convention. Words that result in confusion fail in that the reader misses the intended thought.Ballads, odes, songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, epitaphs, inscriptions, and autographs come into their own in their own times and days. Many linger and stand true through the ages. Flawed artistic forms fall short to dismay their observers by lack of substance, or perhaps even by lack of convention.No claim is made here that any of the following will linger through time unscathed or even remembered. Some may be challenged by their lack of substance. A few, perhaps, will strike a convergent point of identity and be accepted for what they are: observations by one recalling points in time.

Editing 10 Steps is full of reminders to check and re-check details plus it shows how to avoid rushing in order to produce a more polished document. Editing 10 Steps builds awareness in writers who know how tough it is to be objective about whatever type of writing they choose. Editing 10 Steps recognizes that re-writes separate the beginner from the polished revisions demanded by professional editors and authors. Editing 10 Steps pushes writers who may be too close to the thoughts they try to convey and offers encouragement to see what is missing or overly stated. A reference guide and user friendly, Editing 10 Steps is more than a one-time book. It will be an on-going helper to produce error-free manuscript as the only ones acceptable.

Poetry is a mysterious combination of images, sounds, reflections prompted by reader and writer, a rhythm of thoughts conveyed in expressive phrases to convey subtle or blunt messages. Poetry is a challenge to the uninitiated and a rewarding experience to those who revel in imagination.Times change. Some disparage the simple rhyme. Yet the sing-song effort of positioning image with image tickles the imagination, spurs the memory, and prompts recollections of other times and other feelings. Rhyming, when forced, results in cheap efforts to create images or phrases based on convention. Words that result in confusion fail in that the reader misses the intended thought.Ballads, odes, songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, epitaphs, inscriptions, and autographs come into their own in their own times and days. Many linger and stand true through the ages. Flawed artistic forms fall short to dismay their observers by lack of substance, or perhaps even by lack of convention.No claim is made here that any of the following will linger through time unscathed or even remembered. Some may be challenged by their lack of substance. A few, perhaps, will strike a convergent point of identity and be accepted for what they are: observations by one recalling points in time.

Editing 10 Steps is full of reminders to check and re-check details plus it shows how to avoid rushing in order to produce a more polished document. Editing 10 Steps builds awareness in writers who know how tough it is to be objective about whatever type of writing they choose. Editing 10 Steps recognizes that re-writes separate the beginner from the polished revisions demanded by professional editors and authors. Editing 10 Steps pushes writers who may be too close to the thoughts they try to convey and offers encouragement to see what is missing or overly stated. A reference guide and user friendly, Editing 10 Steps is more than a one-time book. It will be an on-going helper to produce error-free manuscript as the only ones acceptable.