Category Archives: Commentary
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Writer
Watching the 2024 Olympics qualifying competitions and hearing the profiles of all the athletes who are going to be competing in Paris, made me realize how very much alone we, as writers are in own field of dreams. Each athlete had personal stories to tell about coaches, teammates, family, friends and sometimes entire towns cheering …
It’s Time for a LES MIZ Revolution!
IF I could only SING, I’d form a PROTEST flash mob and change a few words of the great Les Miserable song: “Do you Hear the people sing, singing the song of ANGRY men (and women) It’s the music of a people who WILL NOT WEAR MASKS AGAIN!” WTF? We were PROMISED if we got …
Author Raven West 
A Fictional Series that All Too Real
Raven West ♦ February 11, 2024 ♦ Leave a comment
I recently watched Good Girls Revolt on Amazon Prime. It’s a 2016 fiction series about a New York weekly magazine set in 1969-1970 where women were not allowed to become reporters, even though they were doing a great deal of writing for the men! It was a fictional setting; however, the content is VERY much based …
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