Authors Electric

Next month will mark my Blog's 10th year and with its longevity, and 600 blog posts, I've learned a few things along the way. This week chatting with a friend, I remarked that blogging is like magazine writing.  You need to welcome a reader in, and not hide your ideas in cluttered writing that assumes the reader understands you but encourages them to learn from you. Some years back I had a friend of a friend who, when asked a simple question, would tell you everything she knew or thought about a subject. We met at a class. If you asked where you to park, she would tell you the history of the parking lot, explain the institution’s relationship with the lot, contrast this with other parking locations, and somewhere in there, if you were lucky, and on rare occasion, would be where you could or could not park. It didn’t help that her voice was loud and high-pitched.  Being sensitive to sound, I get affected mentally and physically by the tone of voice. Sounds have po...