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August 8, 2018
More Conversation about What Age Brings to Writing . . .
Our last conversation post was on Monday, August 6th… [image error]
It was unique in our full series of conversations since it began at the behest of a reader’s comment…
I’d been the one to begin the new topics: yet, this conversation began in the comments, not out here…
So, no matter what we’re talking about, in any post here, if you bring up a topic (in the realms of Reading, Writing, and Publishing), I’ll start a conversation about it… :-)
Now…
To continue the conversation of “What Age Brings to Writin...
August 7, 2018
When your old #writing experiment transforms into a series of #free #shortstories, you find yourself in #RiverVine.
All about changing gears :-)
Some explores aren’t planned.
We only want to check out what’s behind this one corner before we continue on our way. Peek into this one strange window and then go back to our business. Stick our heads into this one rabbit hole, then move on with our lives.
Only we fall in.
And we don’t always climb out.
In the winter of 2017, the music of John Carpenter set my creative cogs turning round and round a character from an old WIP. But I was already set...
August 5, 2018
Blog Conversation about What Age Brings to Writing . . .
[image error] The last conversation here was about blog conversations themselves—a way to encourage folks to offer their ideas about what we could discuss…
If you’d like to add your ideas, check out Blog Conversation about Blog Conversations . . .
The most cool thing about having “what age brings to writing” as an offered topic is that two authors actually began the conversation in the comments of that last post:
“What a great question and very apt as I nearly stopped reading a novel I got out of the libr...
An Ode To Clarity
Pay…? Hmmm………
Members of the Brevity staff sporting their formal writing daywear
Some time ago, I wrote at The Review Review:
…when a magazine elides their lack of cash compensation or makes it hard to find, they insinuate it should not be the writer’s concern, or a criterion for submission. It becomes another subtle signpost to writers: Your work shouldn’t be for money. At its worst, not actively sharing the information says, you shouldn’t care, writer. You shouldn...
August 4, 2018
Do It Now
Today’s re-blog may seem light-hearted — until it isn’t…
Years ago, my mother was a beauty queen. Not metaphorically–she was Miss Niagara Falls and Miss Ottawa and twice runner-up to Miss Canada. As a kid, I spent hours leafing through her scrapbook, marveling at the full-coverage swimsuits of early-1960s Ontario and thinking how much young Mom looked like Grace Kelly. But my favorite of her titles was a small, local affair–not even really a pageant.
Winter 1965, the...
August 3, 2018
Blog Conversation about Blog Conversations . . .
It was back on February 12th of this year that I raised the idea of Blog Conversations here. [image error]
At first, they were only on Mondays and Wednesdays since I hadn’t yet finished the 95 Tales in my Story Bazaar—Fridays were added in June.
And, if you’re new here, the other days of the week are reserved for re-blogs from a bevy of valuable sources…
So, here we are on one of the Friday phases of conversation and I came to the conclusion that it might be a good time to consider what we can discuss in...
August 2, 2018
A MUSLIM GIRL AND HER FAMILY by Saadia Faruqi
We all face challenges in life…
Today’s re-blog author (and, her children) face unique challenges; yet, she can write about the protagonist in one of her books:
“She’s just an ordinary American girl, and my kids need her so much.”
I grew up in Pakistan, where books were scarce. My mother would drop me and my two younger sisters at the British Council library and leave on errands. We’d roam the halls all afternoon, from the colorful children’s section to the quiet and somber re...
August 1, 2018
More Conversation about Aids for Writers . . .
[image error] The first post in this conversation series was on Monday, July 30th; and, we had three folks comment about which writing aids they use—from Germany, Jamaica, and Australia—all accomplished authors—three glimpses into writers’ routines…
First, Germany:
“I usually write on my laptop nowadays. When I started as a writer I scribbled on paper, but I gave that up as it’s simply too much work to transfer the text into a digital version; although, this process was a step in revision. But, I still ma...
July 30, 2018
Blog Conversation about Aids for Writers . . .
[image error] Our last conversation—How and Why Writers Write—ended on Friday, July 27th, because it received no comments. If you go to that last link you can access all 5 of the posts in that discussion…
So…
Here we go, talking about aids for writers—actually, anything that helps a writer write :-)
If your a writer, you probably use at least a few writing aids; and, you’ve more than likely tried out even more…
If you know a writer, you may have seen many different aids—on their desk or in use…
I suppose...
