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Monday, April 7, 2014

Character creation and writing

I am reading a book right now, THE TOUCH by Colleen McCullough, and feeling a little disappointed. She is telling the history of her second character... first I realized that the book was going to be about both the main players was when Part Two began. She has to do this, all this telling, this... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Writers Workshop: How do you write a dream?

Writing fiction, long or short, sometimes there is a dream sequence that needs to stand out as a dream, as not the same as the 'real world' of your story. I use italics and a lot of ellipses rather than periods to convey the way a dream drifts from one element to another. How do you write a dream? Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

prompt: Muses

Sometimes an article on Blogit will get me going, and a comment will expand until it's in danger of hijacking the original post. That's when I cut it out, and leave a simpler, more concise comment, and then hie off to my own blogspace to paste and add a few more thoughts. Sometimes, an article or an... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

What says Spring?

For me, the first crocuses and the golden forsythia blooming tells me it is springtime in the yard. In the woods, it is the bright green of emerging skunk cabbage... and little white and yellow and purple wild violets. There is the mist of green in the woods, too, that will expand to the sea of... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

One moment, one conversation, one experience...

A state legislator in Washington State used to drive daily down the road that Charlie walked to school. Charlie has always liked walking. He would walk in any weather, where most kids got rides or drove. The legislator stopped one morning and told Charlie how much he admired him, and enjoyed seeing... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 3, 2014

What are you reading?

Why did you pick it up, and what is your opinion of it? Do you read a book to the end even if you aren't enjoying it? Why? Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

prompt: What books from your childhood shaped your life?

PatB's post today about the winter of '82 brought this to mind. THE LONG WINTER by Laura Ingalls Wilder: When I was first reading that volume of her series, at around age 7 or 8, I was so engaged, that winter was dreadful long indeed! I felt every buffet of every blizzard, and my heart sank when... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

A New Year's prompt

TAPS wrote today about her neighbor and his campaign against the Canada geese invasion of his property. It reminded me of this story which was in the newspaper many winters ago, with a series of pictures. It happened in one of the northern NJ townships, where there was a large, frozen reservoir. A... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Here it comes...

rolling around the globe like a coat of new paint: 2014! What is the first thing you'll do in the new year? I don't mean, toasting and dancing under fireworks... I mean, after that: When you wake up on New Year's Day, how will you begin your 2014? My housemate of the past 5 months has just moved the... Sign in to see full entry.

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