A few years ago, browsing in a used bookstore in a town where I don't live (which, by the way, is a great strategy for finding titles tha...

One thing that makes the human species so unique is the complexity of our communication. We like to think of language as a fixed, reliabl...

[A note of apology: Ideally this should have been a Halloween-themed post, but the spirit didn't move me until this week.] As the waning ...

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and ...

It's not always easy to market your editing skills. As someone who's been doing this for a few years now, I see two main reasons: 1) Ther...

Welcome to The Village Wordsmith blog. I never really thought of myself as a wordsmith until my team members at the George Lucas Educatio...

INTRO: OUR MAN IN KIEV In December 2009, I heard from Dmitry Duda, an entrepreneur in Ukraine who'd seen one of my ads on craigslist. He w...

INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #7 To the best of my knowledge, this seventh post in my series was never published. And the ride e...

INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #6 This sixth post in my series was published 3/18/10. See the intro to post #1 for the what and w...

INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #5 This fifth post in my series was published 12/17/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and w...

INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #4 This fourth post in my series was published 10/7/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and w...

INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #3 This third post in my series was published 9/4/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and wh...

INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #2 This second post in my series was published 6/30/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and w...

INTRO: BLOGGING FOR MARY-MARGARET NETWORK In March 2009, when I was a struggling writer intent on breaking into the gaming industry, recr...