It is said that writing exposes what we care about. That might be true, though I’d love to deflect it. In High School, my most active writing started out as love letters to a girl who turned out to be the last person on earth who should ever read those notes. I looked them over […]
Spending so much time at home during the pandemic, I’ve finally opened some storage boxes and plastic bins of odds and ends with mixed results. Listening to an audio book or a commentary track, I’ve been able to get into the groove of this tedious task of deciding what can be thrown out and what […]
The biggest hitch to the #CormanChallenge is to shoot a short on a cell phone. I have a cheap Samsung Galaxy J3 which I would replace in a minute if I could just walk into the store instead of trying to order on the phone itself through the website and get caught in the loop […]
Y’see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I’ll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I’m wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn’t write them as […]
via ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Creating New Characters — A Great Day To Be Alive
“The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.” ~Ridley Pearson
via ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~Becoming a Better Writer — A Great Day To Be Alive
So I see a lot of posts in the writing community about having to make massive cuts to their work because they wrote too much. Which is a very desirable problem to me because I have the exact opposite problem. I finished the first draft of my Work In Progress and it clocks in at […]
via ALLLL BYYYY MYYYSEEEEEEEELF — Diary of a Half-Crazy Writer
Somebody asked me what it’s like to be a writer. I thought about it for a bit, then said, “It’s difficult to put it into words.” Sometimes I get confused about why I keep writing. Between the agonizing labor required to bring forth a fully finished plot and going through all of the multiple steps […]
Emptyheaded; So quiet in there; Wondering where all the loud thoughts disappeared to; Can’t seem to find a single stray thought to hold on to; As if they are hiding away from me; Afraid of what I’d do to them; The silence is deafening; Even with music in my ears; It feels like it’s […]
“Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.” ~ Amy Tan
via ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Writing Privilege — A Great Day To Be Alive
Now that’s a headline I never expected to write, but here we are. As a writer, I thought staying home and social distancing would be life as usual. But I was wrong. I’m missing the public library and the two university libraries where I do much of my research. And I’m missing the two or […]
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