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 
Traffic Jam On the Road To Riches
Raven West ♦ January 14, 2026 ♦ 1 Comment
In the early days of publishing the road to riches was a small highway littered with rejected manuscripts and abandoned dreams. Few who started out on the journey actually made it to the finish line. Many more either crashed and burned, or simply abandoned the trip altogether. For the financially independent, there was the alternate toll-road. …
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