Category Archives: WRITING

This would be a tough one. How would a writer create a character such as Saddam Hussein and make it believable? You have a character who has held a country together in fear, capable of creating a complex social strata … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here as promised is an essay so graciously offered here by Ben, author of The Life and Times of Neutrino Man: Whenever people comment on my writing, especially if they’re complimentary, I love to tell them how I almost flunked … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For the first time in many years I have had the thought of putting up a Christmas tree this early in the season. Because my business is affected by the gift-giving nature of this holiday, my true personal Christmas feeling … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have just received an e-mail from Ben at The Life and Times of Neutrino Man, and we’ve decided to centralize the thoughts in previous postings regarding how much of an author’s personality enters or should enter his writing by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Does the occasional brilliant thought spur one to write a paragraph or a novel? Can that spark, or let’s say, lightning strike sustain an outpouring of words indefinitely? What do we allow to interfere, act as a circuit breaker so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In a comment below, Ben of The Life and Times of Neutrino Man brings up the question that’s often asked about personal information in weblogs, but goes further to question the bigger picture of authors and writing in general. While … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Maybe it’s because I tend to be practical, and brutally honest—at least to myself. I think I tend to temper honesty with delicacy for others, and I do allow myself flights of fancy when my mind isn’t required to use … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m getting quite a late start this morning in my writing, and all because an idea that won’t go away is bogging and blocking (blogging?) my thoughts, excluding all else from getting through. With a more focused day at hand; … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How rude of me to have started the day off complaining about our bad writing habits! And me, of all people! Why just look at my name: Spinning… tales, my wheels, out of control. How much more of a cliché … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Whoever first described it as “a blanket of snow” really nailed it. Hearing the words for the first time, one must admire the conception, the thought process, the beauty of finding just the right words. Sometimes it seems that once … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Garmhos is well underway as a weblog for writers of all genres and mediums, and though it is tied in with a local group, all are welcome as the internet provides the silky strands of the web to reach and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So now the Word program is left open and staring back at me when I come flying into the room and sit down at the keyboard. Writers can control words—through superhuman effort, they can learn this much—but there is little … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Every day I find more and more links to writers and writing related sites. Wish I had thought of this searching a few years ago. But then, blogging is fairly new, and even the .com’s have journals as part of … Continue reading → Continue reading →