Jaye Em Edgecliff's Blog, page 21

Best Friends To The End...

Reblogged from Kindness Blog:

Please click below for more hospital kindness;

“While I was near death and hospitalized…”
“A hospital allowed this lady’s cat to visit her before she died.”
Rugby Player Visiting Little Girl In Hospital
6-Year Old Kyla Sets An Amazing Example
Reunited at Last
“…A Dad’s Promise Ought to be Kept.”

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Show & Tell

“Show, don’t tell” it’s something you’ll find a certain class of critic and some writers repeating over and over. It sounds good too; I mean, if I only tell, the story will be rather short. To tell Now & Forever: Lauren and Sally meet, they fall in love, there’s some crap because they’re lesbians in modern America and because they attend a religious private school, they overcome it, they graduate and live happily ever after.

Not too exciting is it? Needless to say, I’ve got some showing to do....

Taboo

Oh what a subject. And, no, I’m not here to talk about weird board games, either.

I was actually participating, not just browsing, today on the NaNoWriMo forums and incest was brought up.

Should it be incorporated into a tale? Oh, dear me, I believe I’ve said all I can about an author asking “should”.

Still, that aside, itis an intriguing question. Taboos aren’t like eye colour, and hair colour. Should my character be blonde, should they be Asian, should they be Jewish. While, perhaps, in other...

How serious should I be?

Perusing NaNoWriMo’s forums I keep coming across variations of an interesting, and generally unanswerable question for all artists – but one I swear seems to come up more and be more vehemently … argued? among authors (writing advice books, other writing forums, etc.): how seriously to take the writing? What priority should it hold in your life? And other similar veins of thought.

Now, really, as with all things – no one can tell you what works for you; they can only say what works for themsel...

Write Because You Love It

Reblogged from K. L. Penington:

Ever since I was little, I knew that the only thing I wanted to do was write. Sure, there were my brief phases where I imagined myself doing something brave or adventurous: FBI agent, fashion designer, veterinarian, ballet dancer, princess....but these were all very, very short lived.

While I may have known what I wanted to do when I "grew up," there was still a lot I didn't know.

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Writing about writing

I’m going to take a tiny break from my poking around the NaNoWriMo forums, and unburden my mind on something.

I spend an awful lot of time writing about writing when I only have one book out, don’t I?

Seems strange, especially to me.

Thing is, Tolkien wrote a bit about writing and he only ever released two books (Lord of the Rings,for those who don’t know, was only a trilogy due to paper shortages). I certainly don’t believe I’m half the author that Tolkien was, nor do I disregard his academic w...

Should my character …

Should my characters get hungry? Should they eat? Should they become aroused? Should they bark like a chicken, or crow like a pig?

Some of those are hyperbole, obviously, some are truly questions asked in writing forums. Not just NaNoWriMo‘s, though the non-hyperbolic examples are taken from those very boards.

Again and again, when writing the only should is: you should write — the story won’t write itself, and you should use proper and clear language — without it your story is unreadable, or n...

Chapters

Well, another topic that interested me turned up. So, here we go.

Chapters. How longshould they be?

Oh my, oh honey, no. That would be one of those silly “writing rules” that are such a terrible travesty of the creative process. Forgetshould.

Now, that said, I’m going to tell you how long a chapter should be: as long as it needs to be.

I say that a lot, don’t I? Should a character be gay? If they’re gay, yes. Should I write in English or French? Which do you prefer?

The only rule of writing is:

a)...

Another November, another NaNoWriMo

Well, it’s November and time for NaNoWriMo to begin again in earnest.

This year, and for the foreseeable future I shan’t be participating – it did my writing more harm than good, but for some it is the incentive and push needed to actually get their story written. For those people, good luck.

Still, the forums can be amusing, interesting, fun, frustrating, and many other things. So I’ve got this notion to take topics of interest and provide my more in-depth, blogpost length vs forum reply lengt...

Trick-or-Treat: Free books!

Well, book.

Love or Lust is free tomorrow through 4 November.

Now, there’re catches:

I can’t make the print book free. Seriously, I don’t have that kind of control over the pricing. There’s a minimum, and the price is already not much above that.
I can’t set it free in all eBook retailers. Sad, but true. Some will set themselves. Nook and Amazon were the only places, thou...