If you have never seen Jacques Tati...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGUIpdc0i4&feature=related Take a couple of minutes for this retrospective glance at M.Hulot's Holiday Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Commas.
Commas? Commas! We need punctuation to make sense of what we read. Punctuations tells something of the sound of the words, the emphasis, and most importantly, what is the relationship of word to word, phrase to phrase. Commas inform as we read, what modifies what, and what does not modify what. When... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Intellect vs Inspiration
This is one of my Writing Workshop topics, addressing the problem of getting past the left-brain's diligent conscious ordering and explication of an idea, to the right-brain's almost effortless expression of the idea. A friend sent me this link today, so I can share it with you:... Sign in to see full entry.
Here's an eye-opening Blogit writer to check out!
Setaki writes of South Africa. I've been delighting in these anecdotal tales very much! If you are familiar with and enjoy Alexander McCall Smith's 'First Ladies Detective Agency' stories, you'll appreciate what Setaki writes, with a similar dry and affectionate and sometimes subtly grim voice, of... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Here's a fun dialogue prompt: A most unlikely meeting!
This is going to be one of the exercises in my writing workshop. First, the video... http://www.slothster.com/2352-Cat-On-Boat-Plays-With-Dolphins.html Now, the prompt: Write the conversation that is taking place between these two. Ideally, write it with nothing to pad it out: just the dialogue,... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Writer's Workshop: commas
As a reader, I beg you. be aware of when, where, and maybe even why to use commas, and take the time: misplaced punctuation ruins the magic of the storytelling, like your car bottoming out on the road, just when you are enjoying the ride. As an editor, it is maddening to deal with a manuscript that... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Another dog story
I heard about all this recently, in a phone call. My elder-brain being not exactly a sponge, is a little vague on some of the specifics. But the important ones are intact. A friend of mine had a couple of dogs, middle-aged at least. Bandit was a chunky little lady, a smallish breed who was rather... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Alcoholism is the theme...
This is a reprise of a poem I posted some time ago, somewhere or other... but it is easier to pull it from other archives than to go find that page again. I bring it out again because of a post in another blog: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/tamijo/ Bitter Grapes Wine was once upon a time... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
How many different ways can you say the same thing?
Morning came. The sun rose over the horizon. Dawn glowed against the dark sky. Night fled before the first bright shreds of morning, high in the sky. An ad-copy writer years ago, who happened to be my boss in another line of work entirely, told me this one thing that became one of my first rules of... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
A new writing project
IN THE BEGINNING Glimmering in the brilliant light of a young sun, each charming, each a delightful nexus of potential... “So perfect! So round, so untouched—How shall we choose...?” Thus spake Anabla, the one who favored unlikely winged things and sweet lights and colors. Porlith snorted in the way... Sign in to see full entry.