Settling for Your Best

For now, it will have to do.

While I like most of the latest issue of the magazine I produce, one aspect troubles me. The cover photo I’d taken was adequate, but I keep replaying how I could have done better.

Then my decades of photographic experience kick in. The conditions had been difficult, my time limited, the opportunity unexpected. Given the circumstances, I’d … Continue reading

Review Your Work

Do you give yourself time to make revisions?

I could have settled for the versions of the magazine articles I’d completed a few weeks ago. I’d already gone over the layouts several times.

Since they were for the next issue, I had set them aside while I completed this one.

But today as I revisited those pages, I kept seeing aspects I could improve. … Continue reading

One Book or Many?

How could you read just one?

The author’s Facebook question seemed straightforward. Then I realized it suggested a situation for writers I find virtually impossible.

His question: “What book (other than the Bible) are you currently reading?

Stop and consider that. Do you see something not quite right?

Of course he assumes any writer would be reading a book. What puzzles me is … Continue reading