Blog – Author | J E Delehanty

IDENTIFY WHAT HAS INFLUENCED YOUR WRITING

December 31, 2025

It is difficult to call to mind those things that have an influence on our writing just as it is to identify what influences our lives and the way we live. There is much that we can recall. We all can point to family; my grandfather always said this or that, I remember the way…

Dealing With “LIKE” Our Changing Language

November 19, 2025

I am sure you have, like myself, noticed the change in our English language over the last decade or more. Some of those changes, of course, are part of a living language and are to be expected. Some are also simply cultural. Whether it’s part of ethnicity or regionalism or simply a fad of the…

Can We Make A Difference

November 10, 2025

I think perhaps my career as an educator and what I needed to do to prepare for that role gave me the perspective, the training and the opportunity to be a teller of the written story. The more I engaged my students, the more we discovered about stories together and the more I heard their…

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”

November 6, 2025

Authors write for all kinds of reasons I suppose. Some for money some for fame, for a career or as an avocation, because someone challenged them perhaps. Maybe it is to entertain or to enlighten, to frighten or to move to tears or to laughter. Yet, I suspect that, whatever the superficial reasons, underneath it…

IT’S MORE A QUESTION OF ENDURANCE

September 23, 2025

All authors are committed. They are committed in the same way that every craftsman, every artist is. That is, they want to produce the finest work possible and every word is chosen to that end. They are committed in the same way that every artist is and that means applying their gift to every character,…