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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

"Do you know what a rabbit looks like?"

"Yes, of course I do!" "Can you draw?" "Sure, I can draw." "Okay--here is paper and pencil: Draw me a rabbit." "Well... I can't actually draw one." "Then, you know a rabbit when you see one, but you don't actually know what one looks like." Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

What's on your desk?

My stuff is on a long table, and the center of it, I consider my desk. Around my laptop in the center, there are 5 betta tanks with occupants who you've seen before http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/sets/72157622562626138/; camera; bookshelf with my Parabola magazines and a Gnostic Bible, as... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

"Twice in my life I have wished to die.

Now I look back on each time with the certain knowledge of all that I would have missed had I gone over the water at those times." Juilene Osborne-McKnight BRIGHT SWORD OF IRELAND Where do these words take you? As a person who has lived many, many years with crippling depression and a certain... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 31, 2012

dream story continues

A slight change: Seria is the dark, elfy-looking one, Melandre is the rose-and-gold looking one. I started with the reverse, but keep seeing them in my mind this way. So now it's official. ARTOS He was in a mood. That little tyrant had kept him at it all day, it was late afternoon now, and too late... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

I woke up dreaming this morning,

and held it together long enough to anchor the imagery to a page... I wonder where it will go. Some ideas are crystalizing, even now, around these three young characters. No title yet... that will come. The setting is medieval/renaissance, possibly fantasy, though probably not magical. The target... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

What's your after-Christmas like?

Me, I want to nap... nibble this and that of the leftovers and things like candies that are hung in the tree... Nothing creative, beyond maybe coloring some Celtic designs with colored pencils, and doing my best to stay inside the lines. What do you do, or like, or want, in the days after Christmas? Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Prompt: Waffling

They are now making waffles for dogs: woofles....and waffles with holes that go all the way through: wiffles....and very tiny waffles: weeffles....and very thin waffles: wafles....and waffles with antidepressants mixed in: woeffles....and Klingon waffles: Worffles. What can you add to the menu? Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Speaking in voices

PatB's post today got me thinking about the use of 'voice' in writing. Of course, we can't lean on tonality, as we do with speaking aloud, to convey mood and purpose, and other unspoken subtleties of communication: we have to reveal the personality and details of characters through their manners of... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Willful Character

Many of the most renowned of authors, have reported the same waywardness of their characters that both PatB and Taps speak of today in Pat's blog, and the comments. When you lose control, though, that is when you have fallen into the 'inspiration' zone, and exactly the right time to let go, and let... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

a new prompt: Why have government?

What's a government supposed to do? What is its role in the life of an individual, or a community? Why do we have government? I asked a 14-year-old boy this question, and his answer was, "Government is there to make sure everyone does what they're supposed to do." Interesting: he equates The... Sign in to see full entry.

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