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And Somewhere Along the Way…
I figured I should offer an update on what's going on over here in the mayhem that is my Writing Corner. Well, I was feeling slumped and distinctly lacking motivational drive to work on the WIP projects that were on the top of the "To Do" list. It was that "ehhh" sensation, where as a writer […]
It’s All in the Presentation
I'll admit it here for the world to see and read.I am a nerd. A geek.One of my all-time favorite books on my bookshelf is Edward Tufte's volume titled "Visual Explanations." Between its hardback covers is a brilliantly executed argument for the method one uses to process data into information so that it impacts its […]
Edamame & Bull’s Blood
No, I promise those are not the protagonists in my current WIP.I did, however, stumble across an Earnest Hemingway quote earlier this afternoon: Write drunk, edit sober. Read more »
Playing With Imagery
I really was beginning to focus on the writing again. Within the past week or two, I'd begun fiddling with characters, secondary cast members, and potential entanglements, plot threads. I've hit on the idea of writing the synopsis before I start writing this. Highly unusual, but I'm going to see if I can make it […]
The huMan/huMan Genre: On Responsibility
The definition of the word is: the quality or state of moral, ethical, legal, or mental accountability; burden. Writers, as artists, have a responsibility to both entertain and challenge their audience.Granted, not every work of art will deliver both in equal measures.But both responsibilities exist, if the artist is one who seeks to challenge themselves, […]
Invasion of the Shinies
This afternoon, the weather was warm enough, for the first time on a day off, to venture out with Iron Mike and do our walk. I still have no idea how long it is. It takes about thirty minutes. We don't walk slow.On the way back, I stopped to check the mail. Mistake. Ended up […]
Artists Don’t Refill at the Gas Pump
I'm discovering what feeds my inspirations, and it's rather strange.Or maybe I just have strange tastes.Or maybe it's just a case of the creative tide shifting. These sorts of things happen when they feel like it, seriously. I can string words together in sentences all day long, and sentences into paragraphs, etc. but if it […]
WIP Overhauling: A Reason to Plot First
It happened a lot with BTB. It's happening again, as I work through a plot direction lag in this overhaul of Dancing Circles. I get lost in the reading, so lost that I'm drowning in the experience all over again as though it's the first time. I forget what I was supposed to be focusing […]
Too Much Music: Exploring Communication
Years ago, someone challenged me to write a story just using dialogue.No labels, no descriptions, nothing but the spoken words between two characters. As though all but one of the senses were shut down, and even that one was filtered with extreme prejudice. It was a challenge. It took a bit of effort. But it […]
Life is in The Little Things
I swear these shots are in no way planned or staged.This one, I took earlier this month–manual shutter, no flash–upon glancing up while in the middle of a conversation with a close friend. Sometimes life lets you know that you're where you're supposed to be, doing what you're meant to be doing.Fate, destiny, design? I […]
Haus of Rhi 