Zarf is a Noun; Google is a Verb

Zarf is a Noun; Google is a Verb

As I mentioned, I’m taking a semi-break from blogging and rerunning older posts. Today’s post is one I wrote for The Blood Red Pencil blog in August of 2012.

Lately, thanks (or curses) to one of my kids, I’ve taken up playing Words With Friends. People think that because I write books, I must have a massive vocabulary. Not so. I write contemporary commercial fiction, which is what I read. I like characters to sound like the people I hear every day, and I don’t...