Category Archives: WRITING

Sometimes something hits you in the face and even with prior knowledge, I’m amazed at how thickheaded I can be.  I have most certainly been taught about setting, its importance to lay a framework of the story space where a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A form of show, not tell, I suppose. Just took a minute to write a bit as a scene presented itself, and was about to write, "I hate that."  Now last year, I would have written just that.  The 1st … Continue reading → Continue reading →

On Mystery of a Shrinking Violet, Barbara Klaser posts more on the publishing outlook and because of the many links involved, I’m copying her post here directly: How random is publishing today? If you’re an aspiring writer, and even if … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I think as more and more people find their voice on weblogs, the question of getting paid for being read eventually floats to the surface.  Then reality, like a stone, sinks it back to the bottom of the sea of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Somewhere in the dark confines of the brain where templates hide there is a system, automatic, maybe non-controllable, for what is written. Loose prose of story, Template #17; pulled and used when space produces something that the eyes have seen … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We must go on tiptoeto the crypt.For tho they sleep so deeply,when awakened unaware and bothered,they are bears. (Must have been the damn crow.) Continue reading →

Just dawned on me that most of my metaphorical references are nature or food related. Time, I think, to start scouting out that cave I’ve wanted to close myself into once wireless range has been expanded.  Continue reading →

Sometimes I think that the deeper I fall into this, the more I want to get out.  Perhaps it would have been appropriate to speak up at last night’s meeting, but I didn’t want to embarrass or single anyone out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Think I just ran out of words… Continue reading →

Writing is a hiding place to run to–or maybe from–the mundane or the exotic places, people, space in time. My cave is crumbling into itself here and there.  I wonder if the rumbling is a warning, and if it crashes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In answer to a writer’s question of "What is your thought on the use of the words "feel" and "felt"…should these be avoided in novel writing?   Crawford Kilian at Writing Fiction gives an excellent explanation of the 3rd person … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There was a mole who lived in the neighbor’s lawn who was afraid of the dark.  Herman was also not keen on tight places.  He was never able to outgrown this unmolelike behavior, though his father took him along with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How often is my timing this good?  Via Brandywine Books, this statement and interesting viewpoint from Donald Hall on Poets.Org.: "1. I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. . … Continue reading → Continue reading →

"Do you have poetry to write?" I think I do.  But not in proper form or format.  Free verse, prose, words that have the touch and taste of poetry, but not the structure that would deem it such. Maybe I … Continue reading → Continue reading →