Jaye Em Edgecliff's Blog, page 16
April 20, 2014
Getting better … slowly.
So it’s been a couple weeks, almost, now that I’ve been out of hospital. Yay!
Recovery is going slowly but, according to the doctor, well.
It’s been rough. Week in hospital completely unable to write between pain, drugs, tubes & wires, and other distractions or limitations (not the least of which was exhaustion, a hospital is no place to get any bloody sleep). Since then has been a mix of scatter-brains from pain drugs, and utter inability to lift my writing bag without tearing out the surgeon’...
How do people shop for books?
English: Author and musician Seanan Mcguire at Dezenovecon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Okay, in perfect honestly I almostnever read the comments of blogs (other than my own), YouTube videos … I’m not even wont to read internet forums much. So I never noticed, until it was pointed out to me, a very peculiar phenomenon that just blows my mind and makes me wonder just how pervasive this is … I mean is itjust a Paranormal Romance/SF thing, or is it all books? Did I get some of my initial sales from...
April 14, 2014
Writer’s can’t take time off
Greatest Hits (Billy Joel albums) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It’s another National Novel Writer even this month and while I’ve ceased having anything to do with them I still haven’t got around to blocking/unsubscribing from the periodic emails, and I’ve friends who still do it and still peruse the forums.
There is this pervasive notion among those who give writing advice that boggles my mind so thoroughly it deserves a second post … I’m not sure I’m up to providing a link to my first tackling of...
March 30, 2014
Thinking about penises, dolphins, and elephant trunks
English: (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
My mind wanders, and to very odd places sometimes. Maybe it’s because I’m an author; or perhaps it’s why I’m an author … I’m not even sure if there’s a difference.
This time it wandered to the notions of male power and phallic symbolism.
Certain people see phalluses everywhere they look and decide this is signs of male dominance. If that’s the case, then perhaps it’s also a sign of God‘s gender, because the criterion I’ve encountered in scholarly attempts at th...
Shamless Self-Promotion for Writers
Jaye:
Got a blog or site you wish to unabashedly share?
Originally posted on Jodie Llewellyn:
Okay… I want to try something a little different.
I know a lot of you have websites you care about, blogs you update, books you’ve published and wish to promote. Or maybe there is an article you want to share, an image that makes you laugh, or a quote that you adore.
I want to see them!
So… this is a free for all post. Leave a comment and say whatever you want to say. Promote your book, call people to your...
March 24, 2014
Saying “YES!”
Jaye:
And a lovely followup to a post I reblogged last night …
Originally posted on Creative Infrastructure:
Donuts for sharing (flickr user Johnny MrNinja, Creative Commons)
I wrote a piece last week about saying “no” to unpaid/underpaid artist labor that took off in the inter-webs like a bat out of hell with over 4000 hits/hour at its weekend peak. I would much rather be remembered as the person who says “YES!” than the person who says “NO!” so offer this follow-up.
Just – or even more – importa...
March 23, 2014
Just Say NO!
Jaye:
Perfectly said.
Originally posted on Creative Infrastructure:
A first year graduate student in my arts management class presented a paper this week on arts labor economics. Her undergrad degree was in acting so she had never delved into the topic formally. She certainly understood through anecdotal observation that there is an imbalance between artist labor supply and artist opportunity and that artists are often paid less than their peers in other fields (to put it mildly). Among the fact...
One Picture a Day…………….Day 296
Jaye:
This was so beautiful I had to share.
Check out the blog it’s from, LOTS of gorgeous images.
Originally posted on One Picture a Day:
February 8, 2014….Day 295
Breaking Free
I like the way the stretchy fabric is working. Often props are a crutch but sometimes they make the image.
Two lights were used. One light was placed to the left of the frame and slightly behind the model basically to light the background, the second light was placed to the right of the frame facing the model.
This is a digi...
Students Asked Their Favorite Authors to Visit. Only one Responded
Originally posted on Kindness Blog:
A Redditor wrote:
“Eight years ago, students at my high school wrote to their favorite authors asking them to visit. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one who responded, writing this beautiful and humorous letter.”
”There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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