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June 13, 2017
Why We Compare Ourselves to Other Writers (and How We Can Stop)
Important stuff in today’s re-blog…
by Lauren Sapala
For writers, there are two proven harmful effects of engaging in too much social media. (And let me say first that I’m guilty of overindulgence myself—it’s easy to start out with the intention of quickly checking Facebook and Twitter and then get sucked into a black hole and come out dazed and woozy on the other side.) But if you can keep these two harmful things in mind before you even go in, your chances of coming out un...
June 12, 2017
Author Interview ~ Geetanjali Mukherjee ~ Part Two
It was in February of 2016 when we had our first interview with Geetanjali Mukherjee.
[image error] A bit of Bio:
“She was named after a book that won the Nobel Prize for Literature ~ by Rabindranath Tagore. She grew up in India, spending her early years in Kolkata; then, attending high school in New Delhi. She went on to read law as an undergraduate at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where she joined as many clubs as possible while still giving the impression she understood the intricacies of...
June 10, 2017
On Choosing How to Read
Today’s re-blog might surprise you, very much :-)
Brevity‘s editorial intern, Hannah Koerner, reflects on her summer in Brooklyn working for an indie publisher and other ways that ‘reading for work’ influences how she reads:
Hannah Koerner
A month ago I grabbed bagels with a friend somewhere just outside Central Park. He’d been working as a copy editor on a Buzzfeed-like website for about a year and writing on the side, rereading Moby Dick for something like the te...
The Metaphor Tool
Today’s re-blog gives you a way to change your metaphors—for your writing or your Life :-)
Sometimes, when we are wrestling with a big topic, it can be difficult to address it in a direct way. For example, I struggle with making time for my writing, as I wrote in a recent blog post. I addressed the problem directly there (and have implemented the strategies I mentioned) but sometimes it can also be helpful to address the problem in a more indirect way. With metap...
June 9, 2017
Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Forty-Seven
Who Are We?
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Alexander M Zoltai
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The InterWorld News was issuing an Alert:
“Our HomeStar appears to be increasing its heat again. Palem residents, being nearest, are advised to make use of enclosures for the duration—Salur residents may move about freely. Stay tuned for a message from our Supreme Leader.”
Farl Mezil was readying his response to what he knew the Leader would be saying…
InterWorld News:
“Now a message from our Supreme Leader:
‘Residents of Palem and Salur—and, the ex...
June 8, 2017
How to write emotions and feelings
Another very welcome re-blog from Roz Morris :-)
I’ve had a request from EJ Runyon (who you might recognise as an Undercover Soundtrack contributor). She’s asked me, quite simply, to talk about writing emotions and feelings.
Emotions and feelings are the nucleus of a story. The whizziest plot events will have nil impact unless they matter to a character – and to us.
Put the other way round, a character’s feelings about an event are as important as what happens. And this emotio...
June 7, 2017
“Words Are My Matter” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Yesterday, I finally began reading Ursula K. Le Guin‘s, Words are My Matter : Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer’s Week. [image error]
I got a few pages in and had to put it down—strange because I’ve read her short stories and novellas and was always furiously eager to keep reading…
The difference with Words Are My Matter is that it contains Le Guin’s essays.
She carefully begins the book with an explanation of how radically different essay writing is from her more natura...
June 6, 2017
US V UK
Marvelous re-blog today — lots of colorful charts ( even Australian is mentioned :-)
In honour of Ellen Hawley of Notes from the U.K. and also to acknowledge the diverse multicultural soup here on WP, I couldn’t resist posting this!
Its interesting (well to me) that good Ol’ Australian seems to take some lingo from the Brits, some from the yanks. Go figure.
Enjoy!
June 5, 2017
Two Important Warnings for Writers ~ False News & Toxic Advice
Image Courtesy of Marco Michelini ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/michelini-47800
Writers these days really do need all the help they can get; but then, writers always needed help—I’m sure Og in his cave, painting his stories by torch-light, needed help (and, I bet his wife actually came up with many of them...)
So, what’s the specific help our age makes necessary?
Well, folks who write but have no intention of publishing might be able to fulfill their needs by themselves; unless you...
June 4, 2017
Top 10 Children’s Books to Inspire Creativity by Kristen Williams
Valuable re-blog today :-)
In a time when video games seem to rule the kid scene and funding for the arts is on the chopping block, we should highlight the many wonderful books out there involving art and artists. From preschool to middle school these books are sure to inspire kids to go out and create masterpieces of their own.
Are You an Art Sleuth? by Brooke DiGiovanni Evans (Grades Preschool-3)
A seek and find book featuring 21 famous work of art — each of which is enhan...
