Sounds like you are living in a paradise Erlene. I am sure that we will meet several times as we go forward. Really looking forward to hearing more from you.
Hugh

My pleasure to meet up with you William. Looking forward to hearing your about your journey ahead.

Thanks Chuck. As a neophyte in writing myself what has been the source of so much of your success?

I don't have anywhere close to the success that I would like and now that is out of the way...

I notice that your writing is excellent and that your vocabulary is superior to most.

I've been writing and studying writing for maybe 64 years. It included college and many courses after college. One course was written by my nephew, who is an excellent writer and has been published extensively in newspapers and national magazines, doing music reviews. He has a master's degree in English and taught at Marshall University.

I have a friend who has seven novels published and are in major book stores. He taught me some things and in his mystery novels, his descriptions are clear and paint the picture, but aren't overdone. His background is that he is a nuclear physicist.

My wife teaches English, French, and German at the university level. Before that, she taught at the high school level. She knows grammar very thoroughly and in three languages fluently. She also grades university papers as part of her work. I've seen a few. She has done thousands. I get peripheral exposure to many things, having seen some very deficient papers. She sometimes edits my work, but not my blog posts.

I've read many books about writing. A few hundred?

Writing helps improvement, I think.

As I mentioned, I have written an autobiography, a novel, several screenplays, 5 episodes of a TV series, 7 radio plays, books about music, stage fright, singing, and several hundred blog posts on five different sites. One has well over a hundred. I wrote over 350 posts on Wealthy Affiliate, which I have deleted. Over 2,500 songs, I've written. I think writing daily might be a good exercise.

I don't think of myself as successful and that much of what I write in blogs is not good enough or right enough or proper enough and it gets pulled down. Sometimes out of embarrassment and sometimes out of fear of censorship, even though it is innocuous, I delete them. Over 350 posts are gone and not saved anywhere.

Sarah McLachlan in a song wrote, "There's always a reason, to feel not good enough..." That is me. I never feel good enough.

You definitely do not write like a neophyte.

Honesty.

Really like the mission Steve....from Vietnam to Vegas. Pleasure is all mine that we are linked. Looking forward to hearing much more from you.
Hugh