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Nicholas Reicher Posts

The Point of Know Return

So I borrowed a title. Oh well. The time has hit for major work on my web site, and I need to get on that.…

Writing Progress So Far

I don’t know why, but I seem to mentally be ahead of the current date. It feels like July to me, maybe because the usually…

SmartEdit Writer – first impressions

I’m 100% sold on Scrivener. I hesitated for the longest time, still holding onto YWriter because I didn’t want to spend $40. Once I bought…

Writing Cliche’s You Should Eliminate Immediately

Once upon a time… a writer chose a visual so powerful it hit every reader, and created an emotional reaction. “A single tear ran down…

Superfluous Words

That. So. In (conclusion). Very. Just. Definitely. Then. Rather. Somewhat. Certainly. Quite. Absolutely. Really. Literally. Somehow. Began. Start. Cut. Remove. There’s a few others, but…

Why Writers Need to Beware the Self Publishing Trap

Many years ago, I taught music for a living. I was constantly trying to fill my schedule with enough students to make a good living.…

Why SocialOomph May Be a Sure Thing in 2019

I’m trying out SocialOomph as a replacement for Hootsuite. I did like Hootsuite when I first tried it. Their recent move to eliminating the autoschedule…

Little Known Reasons to Use Character Tweaks

Years ago, I saw a really terrible monster movie. Well, not just one – I seem to have spent my life watching every monster movie…

The Perils of the Samsung Galaxy J3

I bought a Samsung Galaxy J3 to replace my ZTE Maxxpro. I had researched very carefully the choices in phones, and was set on the…