Jaye Em Edgecliff's Blog, page 22
October 26, 2013
I feel kind of … professional now
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So my old way of carrying my works in progress was getting cumbersome — and old backpack with lots of pockets filled to the gills with paperclipped stacks of paper all covered in handwriting.
Today, I’ve cleaned that out and now I’ve got one of ThinkGeek‘s Firefly Kaylee-Inspired Messenger Bags.
Okay, so how does this make me feel prof...
October 24, 2013
And thus a story is born … maybe
Typically, in my experience, a story is born by that which we want to write. I mean maybe a story we don’t want to write just now doesn’t let you be until it’s been written, but still it was something you wanted to do.
Every now and again we find ourselves, unbidden, composing a tale we feel needs to be told.
I find myself tonight contemplating just such a story.
I generally take the approach: if I don’t want to read it, I shouldn’t think about writing it. But sometimes our subconscious can make...
October 20, 2013
Great stories
It’s funny really. A lot of literature can be useful. It gives us a language for discussing what it is we like about a story, or a poem. It gives us a language for discussing the differences between two works. But that’s all it is, a language.
Literature geeks, lit majors, professional and armchair critics alike try to use that language as ammunition for trying to set up definitions for what is or isn’t good art.
Thing is, no art istruly bad or good. It’s what is made of it. Frankly, I think if...
October 17, 2013
Keys to characterisation
I’ve discussed charactisation before, but only in reference while discussing other thing — I think. Honestly, by now, I’ve got enough posts it’d take me days of reading to be sure what all I’ve discussed already. Not really sure what that says … hopefully something good, though.
Still, characters are important to a story. Characters can give you a plot, they can give you conflict — if you have your characters and know them well, you absolutely have a story, because your characters will wander...
October 11, 2013
Considerations
You know, it’s strange. As a fan of Scifi & Fantasy stories I’ve, naturally, heard of the SFWA … hard not to given that its members seem, so often, to be the winners of the Hugo, and certainly its members would be the ones winning the Nebula (or is that the other way around? I can never recall). The SFWA never much appealed to me though.
In the mean time I’ve discovered that there are other writers’ guilds. The RWA, the MWA, and HWA to name a few.
Given that I write romance, the RWA was somethi...
October 7, 2013
How disgraceful
It’s really sad just how petty, cruel, and hateful people can be.
“A gay couple is beaten, in broad daylight, on the streets of New York.” Sounds like the headlines of a news paper in a dystopian novel or of a barbaric and bygone era. Of course we know that humanity, and Americans are still rather barbaric and that this is common place.
Still, it makes people wake up when it’sNew York City! This is a place that’s been gathering such a hodge-podge of humans that you can believably have the barte...
October 4, 2013
The long silence
I’ve not had a lot to say, actually.
Nothing really new in the universe of writing, no new thoughts. I’ve got ideas for Book 3, but I still haven’t managed to get it kicked off and may not be able to do so until I have the end of Ready or Not more solidified.
I could be working on Færie Patrol, I guess, but I’m feeling a bit uninspired in that department. Mostly, I’ve been taking a break to read, watch movies, and refuel my inspirations.
November is coming up. National Novel Writing Month. I wi...
September 21, 2013
Minn. Dairy Queen Manager's Act of Kindness Goes Viral
Humble, and hard-working, Joey Prusak is being called a Good Samaritan -- but he doesn't care for the title.
"The owner asked why I didn't tell him," Prusak explained. "I said I didn't think I needed to. I didn't think I needed to tell anyone, and I didn't tell anyone."
The owners of the Dairy Queen on Main Street in Hopkins had no idea what happened until they got an anonymous e-mail passed along from corporate.
Awesome
September 15, 2013
Another 5-Stars!
I was poking around on Amazon and discovered something: A week ago today I received another 5-star review!
You can, of course, read it here.
It’s always nice to feel appreciated, and that the book is well liked. I’m even happier to see that it seems to really … resonate? Resonate seems a good word, we’ll use that. Yeah, it resonates with people. It’s warming to know that the characters are so endearing, or that the story itself is in some way moving or touching.
I’ve seen it said recently (it w...
