Humor from GOZ

© 2016 Jeanie Jacobson Many writers experience a middle-of-the-night phenomenon. Sleep deprivation kicks in and transports them to the land of GOZ, the Giggly Overtired Zone. This becomes especially prevalent during National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo. That’s the...

Humor in Fiction

© 2013 Sandra Balzo When I sat down to write my first Maggy Thorsen coffee mystery, Uncommon Grounds, I didn’t intend it to be humorous. Why I didn’t realize that having someone electrocuted by a frothing wand and leaving her body to be found “face...

Wild Apostrophes

© 2012 JoAnn Reno Wray I haven’t read articles in the newspaper, seen Internet stories, nor heard it reported by TV newscasters, but I’m convinced a large herd of wild apostrophes has escaped from the punctuation zoo and is multiplying with abandon. How do I know?...