Ronald D. Giles

Postcard Sun, glasses, sand, shells, crabs, kids, coconut, breeze, umbrellas, surf, dolphins, tan, sunburn, ball, hard, soft, bounce, bikini...

The manuscript for "Great Heats" is with the editor. Although I am confident that this is a good story, sending it to her causes s...

"On Harrisonville Avenue" continues to sell in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky, so while I am in Portsmouth over the 4th of Ju...

Rewriting the Epilogue took longer than I thought, and I still may revise it as there are some details that I should revisit, but I say -- o...

Chapter Four is now "in the can," a television expression actually derived from the film industry, meaning it is finished -- the r...

I now have finished rewriting Chapter Three. The usual grammatical and spelling errors have been found, but the number of content errors ha...

This was in my mailbox this morning: A College Class was given the assignment to write a short story using the fewest words possible, but th...

My herb garden has been neglected. Although I have just potted new Basil and Rosemary plants, last year's Oregano and Chives once again ...

At Christmas, I was given a plant holder in the shape of a tricycle. It joins the rooster plant holder in the front of the house and several...

Among the most important pieces of writing that an author can send, is the Query Letter -- either to a literary agent that you hope will rep...

Yesterday, my son, Steve and his son, Jason (my Grand Son) went to a local car show of Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles -- two marques that have r...

I have been away -- not in the travel sense, but away from this and other widely social settings. Among the things keeping me away is my thi...

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...