Adverbs and Adjectives are NOT Your Friends

Okay, maybe they are friends, but let’s agree to classify them as the kind of friends you invite to your house and after a half-hour spend the rest of the night hatching different plans to get them to leave. Seriously. Too many writers, particularly when starting out, think that the more they sprinkle their prose […]

 

When Reviews Are Negative (Or Worse)

I almost never blog about reviews (especially poor ones). Truth is, I try not to read reviews very often. Every once in a while a top reviewer who requested a book copy will let me know they posted a review and I will go out and read it. But while I’m there, I can’t help […]

 

John Wayne, Actor; Clint Eastwood, Motion Picture Genius

I’ve made it no secret: I am a huge movie buff and were I forced to decide on my top twenty-five or fifty movies, half would have some connection to Clint Eastwood. He’d either be in them, have directed them, written them, or all of the above. And that would be excluding all the classic […]

 

Should All Lawyers Really Be Sacked (Or, Can Words Make A Difference)?

On January 7, 2014, in Uncategorized, by rsguthrie

I recently read an article about a Starbucks attorney sending a Cease-and-Desist letter to a small brewpub in Bumfish, U.S.A. It seems the brewmaster/owner splashed one stout beer (Founders Breakfast Stout) on top of the brewery’s vanilla crème ale and, voila!, some customers claimed it reminded them of a Frappuccino™. The owner then listed the beer combination […]