And here we go again! Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Humanity's Potential", a found poem.
Last week, I was clued in to the existence of the amazing tychogirl by way of the awesome Jumping From Cliffs. What I love about tychogirl's found poems is that she actually cuts and pastes the words onto gorgeous and relevant backgrounds, making the poems themselves doubly-incredible works of art. In addition, she writes poems about space. Um, brilliant! So, blatantly ripping a page from her book, I decided that this week's WPW post would feature 1) a poem dealing in some way with space ... View Post
The First Rule of Write Club is: You Do Not Use "Thought" Verbs
I don't usually do stuff like this, where I simply link directly to or simply copy and paste articles into a blog post. Usually I add them straight to my Resources page and stop there. Or summarize the main points after they've been strained through my own personal brain filter. But every now and then there comes some advice that strikes me in such a way with its utter brilliance that I just have to share, and share directly. This is one of those instances. The following was emailed to ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Flock Mentality", a found poem.
Style: sociocultural psychic Paris and Notre Dame cobbled streets in pencil skirts and blouses six-inch platform wedges or maybe just Keds France and Rome clever scarf-tying a casually knotted kerchief from Hermes Girl Scout troop leader or paragon of chic? Dutch and Bhutanese we are trucking in sartorial and nationalistic cliché boys in knickers and wooden shoes folks from other places all looked universal distinctive superficial in time-tested uniforms of subtly-coded flock ... View Post
Another Belated Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Starting from Chekhov", a writing exercise.
So I completely forgot that Wednesday was Wednesday this week. Just bear with me folks, I'll get my brain back in order one of these days! I meant to share this exercise a long time ago but then forgot about it, too, so now that I am remembering things again, I thought this would be as good a time as any to finally post it! The following is the result of a writing exercise done during the New Letters Writing Workshop at the University of Missouri- Kansas City. We were to take the ... View Post
Project List August 2013
So it's like the middle of the month, but better late than never! O_o For the last half of the month of August, I need to... Submit short story "The Transference" to Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Contest by September 1st. Edit two documents for two different writing friends. (Done! 8.18.13 and 8.19.13) FINISH FIRST ACT OF THE CONTEST ENTRY NOVEL. At the moment I'm having a hard time seeing how I can have this entire thing finished and edited by October 1st, but I'm not giving up just ... View Post
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