Alliteration – A Literary Device to Add Some Writing Spice

Over the next few days, I hope to say a word or two about several different literary devices that writers might use to give their writing some punch. My favorite literary device is alliteration. “Laboring, lumbering, laden, and lingering, The Ladybug lollygags along, Her polka-dotted paint shop lags behind.” Ladybug and Damselfly: How They Became…

Jacki Kellum Offers Marketing Aids — Especially for Authors

I have mentioned this before, but please allow me to repeat myself. Long before I became a published author, I had studied art, design, graphic art, and information technology for years. I admit that pursuing those other areas of study has slowed down my writing output, but now that my debut book The Donkey’s Song…

Learning to Paint and to Write by Intuition

When I am painting and when I am writing, I consider it a great day when something within myself takes over and essentially completes my project for me. This gentle urging is intuition. It is the spark that helped Michelangelo release his sculptures from a piece of rock, and it is my writer’s voice and…