Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Clarifying Between Bullying and Critiquing Book Reviews

    Originally posted on Falls Into Writing: With the changes in the publishing world, more and more the reader is becoming king. Never has the reader had so much power in what becomes hot or not than now in the age of online reviews for writing. And with the rise in self-publishing where the gatekeeping is now directly in the hands…

  • A Summer Vacation from Writing—for the most part

    I decided to take some time away from the blades and drills to feed my writing beast a treat.

  • The Food Wars

    Who is the New York Post columnist Kyle Smith really working for?

  • Fixing the Self-Esteem Train Wreck

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The self-esteem generation may be fixing the cultural train wreck caused by the average Baby Boomer parent. But before I talk about how the Self-Esteem Generation—known as the Me, Me, Me people or the Millennials—are going to do this, I want to point out some of the damage the Baby Boomer…

  • Unknown Callers

    The caller ID window offered no identification or phone number. Should we shoot our phone?

  • How Much Do You Do Before You Click “Publish”?

    Before I click “publish”, I follow a step-by-step process and once that process is completed, I click. But the process is longer and has more steps for a book-length manuscript that I’m planning to sell to readers compared to the editing process for a post that’s free to read. For example, Hemingway had a process. He worked on one-page a…

  • Will this generation reach avatar immortality?

    How about a new life with the old you? Starting over at age eighteen again from eighty or older.

  • Good News Twice in One Day

    What does it take to get your book noticed in a crowded marketplace?

  • Opinions versus the Truth – are they one and the same?

    When does an opinion become the truth, and who decides what that truth is?