December 29, 2006 – 4:11 pm
There’s a great article over at wikiHow – How to Write a Short Story. Some really solid advice and principles there, speaking as a fledgling writer with a few shorts, and two novels, under my belt.
Under the category of gathering inspiration, I would like to add that the tip given by Anne Lamott, in [...]
December 26, 2006 – 4:53 pm
Time/Project Management has ever been a weak point of mine. I make stabs at getting better, but is has always been a struggle. Keeping an index card in my back pocket has been a god send lately, but I still yearn for a more complete system.
Today’s LifeHack.org entry had a link to an [...]
December 13, 2006 – 2:26 pm
Great article over at the DIYPlanner site about Refueling the Muse. The bits about World of Warcraft playing, and surfing Google for Zombie videos are particularly close to my heart.
In the book Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury has a great essay on the care and feeding of your Muse. Too [...]
December 12, 2006 – 2:52 pm
I have come at writing backwards. With the exception of a few poems, and some very intermittent journal entries along the way I made no real stab at being a writer until last year’s NaNoWriMo. In one month I wrote a full blown 52,000 word awful first draft of a fantasy novel – [...]
December 12, 2006 – 2:34 pm
I just came across this post on what being poor is as linked from the Compact yahoo group -
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003704.html
I have experienced some of these things in my life, but I have never faced truly crushing poverty. I am grateful that I never have, and that I have been able to help some others along the [...]
