Ronald D. Giles

One of our dear readers pointed out to me that in my previous post, my partial list of the industries and organizations that President Obama...

"It always makes it easier to fight a war if you demonize people, so that you are not killing human beings, you are killing the devil....

In Mr. Obama's own words: ________________________________________ "I now have been in 57 states -- I think, one left to go....

Just in case you thought the Chicago Manual of Style was rough on writers whose careful quotient was low, please meet JOAN -- Mrs. Giles. Sh...

Rewrite, revise, ellipsis, spellcheck, Chicago Style Manual, rejection letter, Chapter Three, drop cap, page break, cut, paste, copy, clarif...

Revising, revising, revising -- capitalization, grammer, em dash, grammar -- cutting, substituting, moving, synonyms, missing words, fleuron...

I couldn't let it go! Yesterday, I added three pages to the end of my book. It is an improvement, I think. Joan will tell me. Maybe thi...

I have completed the principal writing of my third book. It was difficult sleeping last night as I had nothing to resolve about the book. To...

Writing, writing, writing -- sleep -- eat. Writing, writing, writing. Almostattheend. Then revise, revise, revise ...

From 800 AD to 1400 AD, a Global Warming period struck the Northern Hemisphere. During this time, the Vikings discovered and settled "G...

Consumed with writing, I have finished Chapter 3, a transitional chapter, and now turn to Chapter 4, a critical chapter. It opens with our m...

Meet Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Arizona. She represents the First Congressional District of Arizona, an area that, if it were a state, would be...

A January, 2010, Rasmussen poll of US citizens found that 45 % of us believe that randomly selected citizens from the phone book could do a ...

So far, my discipline for writing has held. I am sure that the cold weather has something to do with it as the distractions are limited to ...

"The misuse of the arcane process of reconciliation—a process intended for deficit reduction—to enact substantive policy changes is an ...

I am continuing to write daily, averaging about a page a day. Our now 28 year old hero has been sentenced to spend his lifetime in seclusion...

The Second Chapter is now complete -- 16,000 words and 41 typed pages, about 60 book pages. It is not edited and I still have some open ques...

Chapter two has now grown to 14,000 words -- and it is not over. The Ceremony of One, a wedding scene of 1,000 years ago in what is now midd...

From the UK newspaper, The Guardian , "Scientists have been forced to withdraw a (2009) study on projected sea level rise due to global...

Still in Chapter two of my third book, I have begun to detail a wedding ceremony set in the year 1000 between our 18 year old hero, Young He...