Christopher Meeks's Blog, page 7
March 15, 2013
Seeking & Receiving Feedback on Your Writing
“A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” -- Aldous Huxley
February 11, 2013
LET'S NUKE THEM
My cousin in Minnesota wrote an email to many of his relatives including me asking us to think about Iran’s nuclear goals and our own bombs.
February 2, 2013
Specifics Are the Lifeblood
Sometimes a good sentence zings in like a mosquito on a mission from the Minnesota woods. When I hear or read a good line, it often catches me off guard and makes me see my world in a new way.
January 21, 2013
January 2, 2013
December 25, 2012
The Why of Storytelling
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in
December 13, 2012
December 9, 2012
POETIC SENSE: Sound and Imagery
A poem . . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness…. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. —Robert Frost
December 2, 2012
November 30, 2012
Finding Your Voice As a Writer
Some days or months after Al Gore invented the Internet--make it the nineties--I’d been asked by a friend working for a software company called EFuse if I’d like to write a column.
