Tag: blogging

• Does Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’ Measure Up to ‘Handmaid’s Tale’?

  *Please note that I may earn a small commission should you click any of the links in this post to make a purchase. However, I bought my own copy of this book and reviewed it independently of any commissions, payments, or trade-offs. Book: The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale Author: Margaret Atwood Link…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 25, 2020

  Book Reviews

  blogging, book review, books, creative writing, dystopian fiction, Margaret Atwood, reading, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Writing

• 4 Ways to Tell if Information is Real or Fake: Advice from a Former Journalist

  

  When I was a daily newspaper reporter, I always had to navigate through multiple versions of a story before I learned what really happened. We have a saying in journalism. It goes, “There are three sides to every story: side one, side two, and the Truth.” The Truth usually falls somewhere between the first two…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 13, 2020

  Current Events (and stuff), Social Issues

  blogging, commentary, Coronavirus, current events, fake news, Internet, journalism, media, misinformation, news, pandemic, Plandemic, socialmedia, technology, truth, Writing

• I Have a Right to Protect Myself and My Loved Ones, Too

  To all those angry protestors out there, yelling at people for wearing masks, refusing to respect reporters’ requests to stay six feet back, and screaming in the faces of police officers, I have a message for you: I HAVE A RIGHT TO PROTECT MYSELF AND MY FAMILY, TOO.  If I want to wear a mask…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 5, 2020

  Current Events (and stuff)

  American politics, blogging, Coronavirus, COVID19, current events, lockdown orders, opinion writing, protests, public health, public safety, stay home, virus, Writing

• Why I’m Cutting Back on Social Media as an Indie Author

  A week before Christmas in 2018, a virus attacked my brain stem. Technically, it was my vestibular nerve, which is responsible for communication between the eyes, inner ears, and brain. The condition is called vestibular neuritis (yes, you can Google it). The result of this random, weird sickness was the world wouldn’t stop spinning and…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 2, 2019

  Personal Posts, Social Issues

  anxiety, blogging, creative writing, dystopia, indie author, mental health, science fiction, self-publishing, Social media, technology, The Apollo Illusion, Writing

• Why Indie Authors Have to Stick Together

  I’ve heard self-publishing “experts” say time and time again that no big difference exists between an author going the traditional route or the indie route. Ahem — I beg to differ. Therefore, here are the reasons why us indie authors have to stick together: 1) We have to pay for EVERYTHING. Editors, designers, copyright filing,…

  Shari Lopatin

  September 27, 2018

  For the Writers

  blogging, books, creative writing, eBooks, fiction, humor, indie author, publishing, reading, self-publishing, Writing

• Screaming is What We Do Best (As Writers Writing for Nothingness)

  DO YOU EVER FEEL like writing nothing for the sake of nothingness, in a black hole of a vacuum of ideas, pandering and rambling about rambling in pure space and time, because the blank page mocks you into a fury? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I just want to write, and type, and stumble over words, words…

  Shari Lopatin

  August 13, 2018

  Personal Posts, Random Rants

  art, blogging, creative writing, inspiration, journaling, literature, poetry, reading, wordplay, wordsmithing, Writing

• Journalists Just Want to Tell Stories. Today, Some Died for It

  I used to be a reporter at a small daily, community newspaper like the Capital Gazette. We had maybe 14 reporters, and we were like family. I couldn’t imagine living through a shooting with that family, watching some of them die. Today, I cry with the reporters and staff at the Capital Gazette. We don’t know the…

  Shari Lopatin

  June 28, 2018

  Social Issues

  blogging, Capital Gazette, commentary, current events, essays, First Amendment, journalism, mass shootings, media, news, press, Writing

• An Open Letter to Mike Pence on ‘Life’ and Universal Health Care

  NOTE: After working in healthcare communications for eight years, this is a subject I felt compelled to write about publicly in light of recent political developments. I’d initially written this letter in January, but refrained from publishing it because of my career. The time has come to speak out, however, so I feel the need…

  Shari Lopatin

  March 7, 2017

  Current Events (and stuff), Social Issues

  blogging, health care, health care reform, Mike Pence, politics, universal health care, Writing

• 3 Lessons from My Year Without Blogging

  I’ve been back to blogging for a few months now, but before that, I stepped away from the blogging world for a year to finish my novel. When I re-launched Rogue Writer, one of my longtime blogging buddies, Nina Badzin, commented, “I would love to see a post on how it felt to step away and…

  Shari Lopatin

  April 21, 2015

  For the Writers

  blogging, Creativity, Social media, Writing

• Is Your Blog the Equivalent to Long Division?

  OK, writers … this one’s for you. Sometimes, you just can’t write about “passive versus active voice” anymore. And—let’s be real here—there are only so many ways to reveal “the secret to getting more comments on your blog.” BORING! My blog stats proved it. They were pathetic. They were navel lint. Which is why, one…

  Shari Lopatin

  March 11, 2013

  For the Writers

  blogging, Lynette Benton, marketing, Tools and Tactics for Creative Writers, Writing