← Previous – TW12A – Next → Chapter 12ATRAVELING WITH PHOTOGRAPHERSThe Good and the Bad The one thing I don’t like about travel writing is the need to take pictures. That doesn’t mean I dislike taking pictures, for I do. I have on file
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← Previous – TW11C – Next → Chapter 11CTHE IMPORTANCE OF READINGReading is Educating I believe to a great extent that public relations, or call it publicity, is what create many writers. You have a good publicist and half the battle is won. How
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← Previous – TW11B – Next → Chapter 11BTHE IMPORTANCE OF READINGLearning Never Stops In Paris, I had another wakening. My education was slow and painful. From security guard I was assigned to be the orderly for Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. From this experience, years
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← Previous – TW11A – Next → Chapter 11ATHE IMPORTANCE OF READINGStart Early at Home I had a sister four years older than me, and she was a genius. She could talk to animals. She had regular conversations with them, and she had them
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← Previous – TW10C – Next → Chapter 10CThe Price of Plagiarism The price writers pay for deceiving and plagiarizing, and they pay sooner or later, is heavy. Kaavya Viswanathan knows. A teenage author, she made the best-selling list with her book How Opal
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← Previous – TW10B – Next → Chapter 10BWhen and How Discovered Let’s look at the facts. We read books that have been recommended based on the message they have to tell. We rely on the publishers, not necessarily book critics, to define the
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← Previous – TW10A – Next → Chapter 10APLAGIARISING AND DECEPTION You go to a bookstore and buy a book. It’s an expensive book, but you don’t mind, for it is a book you have always wanted. It is a book for you to
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← Previous – TW9 – Next → Chapter 9HANDLING THE CRITICS Bob Varva is a photographer, and a very fine one. Born in Glendale, California, he was living in Spam when I got to know him. His specialty was photographing animals and, in particular,
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← Previous – TW8 – Next → Chapter 8MY BEST TEACHER My best teacher is experience, and experience is what I gain by trying. I can’t learn to swim by reading books. I have to get into the water; I have to get wet.
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← Previous – TW7 – Next → Chapter 7PLEASING THE EDITOR Somewhere along the line, I learned not to try to outsmart the editor. Wasn’t it Shakespeare who you even though said in one of his plays, “I believe you even though I know
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