Writing samples
This is a small sampling of my writing. Over the years I've written dozens of newspaper and magazine articles, most of which are not available in an online format. If you would like photocopies of clips from standard magazines, and I'll forward them to you. Credits have included, among others: Boardwatch, GEnie's LiveWire, Storytelling magazine, East Tennessee Business Journal, Home Education Magazine, Home Business Journal, Tennessee Alumnus, Inkspot, Writing World, Metropulse, BabyZone.com, and others.
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General online writing
- Coping With High-Risk Pregnancy
- This article focuses on advice from doctors for a layperson about handling the diagnosis and practical aspects of high-risk pregnancy. It is based on our own experience as my wife and I received the news that our baby could have problems. Published on BabyZone.com.
- Speak Up For Your Writing
- Article about using public speaking to support and promote your writing, published on Inkspot, one of the most respected Web sites for writers of all levels of experience. Inkspot was acquired by a corporation in late 2000 and ceased publication in March 2001 (see the next entry), so the link may die any time. [Note added October 2002: Since the link is definitely dead at this point, I've removed the reference. But I'm leaving the entry on this page because that's where the article went first, and I like to give proper credit.]
- Speak Up For Your Writing
- When Inkspot folded because of a corporate merger (followed almost immediately by the Dot Com Bomb in early 2001), Inkspot managing Editor Moira Allen bought the article to run at Writing World, her new online publication.
- Squiggle On newsletter
- An online newsletter that supports people who want to become more effective communicators.
- TV Junkie
- This was basically a fun piece about my step-son. He's a great kid, who showed the piece around at his school when it was published in Metropulse, the Knoxville, Tennessee, alternature newsweekly.
LiveWiremagazine
A note about LiveWire: GEnie's LiveWire online magazine is no longer published, but until recently could still be accessed from GEnie's site. The only files that exist on my server are those that somehow reflect my own writing; links to the original GEnie site still embedded in these files have been left there for archival purposes, but they appear to have expired recently.
- July 1995 column
- In each issue, I wrote a monthly column for a very useful database service that was available through GEnie. The entries here labelled "column" each lead to that month's ARTIST column.
- Opening page of August 1995 issue
- Opening pages are included to give you some idea how the entire magazine was put together. For its time, LiveWire was one of the most ambitious online publishing projects. Note that links from opening pages refer back to the original location on GEnie's computers, except where it leads to one of my articles. I copied my articles to my own server just in case the GEnie links ceased to function; they recently have.
- August 1995 column
- May 1995 complete issue
- Peggy Herrington was the editor for LiveWire. She has placed the entire May 1995 issue just as it appeared originally on her own site. (Note my credit as associate editor--I was very proud to work with Peggy.)
- May 1995 column
- September 1995 column
- September 1995 feature for Educators
- Usually I had the privilege of writing a more in-depth article about some aspect of GEnie every two months or so. This article, for instance, anchored the September issue, which had Back to School as its theme (every issue had a focus or theme).
- October 1995 column
- Opening page of November 1995 issue
- November 1995 editor's page showing staff credit
- The credits box looked basically the same in each issue; this page is included here as a sample.
- November 1995 column
- December 1995 column
- Going back even further, here's a column from the February 1994 issue
- This issue, as I recall, was published before LiveWire came out in an online edition, but after it began to be published in a downloadable electronic edition. In any case, this one is only available as a text file. Since it's nearly 10 years old now, it's the equivalent of middle ages history for computer publishing.