Loren Rhoads's Blog, page 81
February 4, 2012
The importance of distraction
"Thinking improves when parts of the mind are given other tasks: charged with listening to music, for example, or following a line of trees. The music or the view distracts for a time t
January 30, 2012
January 29, 2012
Stop questioning yourself as a writer
"Be hard on your sentences, be hard on your paragraphs, be ceaseless and unrelenting in your revisions, but stop questioning your ability to be a writer.
January 19, 2012
January 17, 2012
Tea and blogging
January 14, 2012
Reasons to Write
"We write to make suffering endurable, evil intelligible, justice desireable, and love possible....That's worth this life."
--- Roger Rosenblatt
January 4, 2012
December 31, 2011
Never Enough, 2011
I try to sit down at the end of each year to figure out how much writing I've accomplished in the past 12 months.
December 8, 2011
Need a Morbid Treat for the Holidays?
Borderlands Books recommends Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues as a holiday gift: "MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES edited by Loren Rhoads (Scribner, Trade Paperback, $14.99) - A mind-b
December 5, 2011
Life is Morbid
November got sidetracked by an emergency trip to Ohio, after my dad (who'd been in and out of the emergency room for weeks) was finally sent to the Cleveland Clinic. In Ohio, they didn't do t
