A writer’s WIPs, the Works in Progress, can be exciting or they can be discouraging.  In my case, they’re both. I have The Great Idea for...

All right, I can't blame it all on Covid, although it's convenient. Yes, there were plenty of disruptions during the past couple of...

If the title of this book doesn’t intrigue you, the story certainly will. I just finished reading Jim DeFede’s account of events that...

The newspaper we subscribe to is the Peninsula Daily News, which is daily from Sunday through Friday. Since the important news items of...

Here I sit in “Sunny Sequim” feeling personally insulted that the weather had the nerve to drop snow on us. There’s no real reason to...

The title of this journal post caught your attention, didn’t it! Just as the title of Susanne Alleyn’s little book does—Medieval...

Research is essential to writing--fiction as well as nonfiction.

Everyone has an opinion about the value of reading a book versus watching the movie—almost as many opinions as there are recipes for...

Hurray for the New Year 2021 and welcome to Marlene's Journal! This page is actually a blog, but the sound of the word blog not only...