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I’ve always loved Kim Carnes’ voice and this song — even though this isn’t the best version of it, it’s the only one I could find on YouTube. And, uh, Kim is 65 years old here and looks, IMHO, absolutely fabulous, so there’s something to be said for breaking the rules. Which brings me to [Continue reading] Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. — Homer uh. Maybe it was the Other Homer who said that. I am heading late out of the starting gate for what promises to be a fascinating Creativity Workshop. Whether I make it around even the first lap remains to be seen, since [Continue reading] When I started blogging in earnest last year, I thought I’d share smatterings of my writing, talk about writing issues and have, if I was lucky, maybe half a dozen writing buddies to compare notes with and prop me up during writing crises and National Novel Writing month. Which is pretty much what [Continue reading] I don’t usually think of my current dog, Polly, as my intellectual muse and partner. Not the way Patch was. I think of Polly more as my personal fitness trainer, since as a hound dawg who needs to run, she forces me to get outside and walk or run every single day, no [Continue reading] This week-end I had the opportunity to see/hear Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story at my local university. This is an NPR series (I’d never heard it; my local station doesn’t carry it — but, yeah, now I know I can download podcasts and so can you…) in which professional actors read “classic [Continue reading] I admit it: I’ve been a slacker lately. I’ve diddled and dawdled away my writing time and not had much to show for the last month or so. I’ve read alot, and that’s good, but my writing production has been pretty tiny. But no more. Sunday A. and I were sitting at [Continue reading] Oprah published a good article by Junot Diaz on becoming a writer. (I admit it, I have NOT read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao but I’ve read a bunch of interviews/articles referencing that it took him ten years to write/rewrite the book. Ten years.) Read this excerpt; then read the [Continue reading] I’ve been reading a lot lately, which means I haven’t been writing a lot lately. In theory, it seems like it’s a good idea to read a lot in hopes of improving my writing – but for me, it hasn’t worked out that way so much, at least not in the short run. Part of [Continue reading] I got an email from Holly Lisle today with information about a crash revision mini-workshop she is offering for FIVE BUCKS from March 28 – April 1 through SavvyAuthors.com. SO….I signed up for it. What’s to lose? Actually, SavvyAuthors looks like it has some interesting courses/workshops, and they’re reasonably priced as well. See you there? My local branch library has twice as many books on fly-fishing as it has on writing. Given my limited choices, I checked out How to Write and Sell Your First Novel by Collier and Leighton. Here’s # 5 from their “Seven Do’s” Checklist: “Do type with a new, black ribbon so [Continue reading] |
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