There is a fantastic article in this month’s issue of Psychology Today Psychology Today: Current Issue about procrastination. It’s called Getting Out From Under by Hara Estroff Marano. Yes, I said the “P” word. I can’t copy the article, but I’d like to showcase a couple of paragraphs that slapped me upside the head. Here,…
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My Story is Out!
A little blurry because I blew it up. Go to their site for a better cover shot. Retribution, is out. Better get your copy and get it signed before I get famous– this could be a collector’s item someday. heh heh (If writers didn’t dream, you wouldn’t get the stories, right?) No seriously, this is…
Article on Writing and Fun Pictures from Discover Romance in Oklahoma
Victor Vasnetsov. The Magic Carpet. 1880. Oil on canvas. The Art Museum of Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia For a time, my critique partners and I were having a blast writing haiku poetry. Three lines. Five beats, seven, then five again. It’s a challenging style of poetry that I seriously enjoy. At the time, I…
New Blog and a Bit of a Ramble
Okay, I still can’t format, still can’t double space and hitting the “enter” key sends me off to La La Land. I’m going to find some other tricky way to break up this long ramble. How about switching colors for paragraphs?I’m terribly excited about Brian Keene’s new blog, World Domination 101 . He plans to…
Messages From Water
Thank You “You make me sick.” I was waiting for a movie to start Friday night and caught a small bit of a movie called, What the Bleep Do We Know? I only had a couple of minutes, but I decided, after seeing this part, to go back and watch the entire movie when I…
Today is About Fun!
Today, I’m all over the place. Just one of those days when there’s a lot going on and the mind is jumping. And speaking of jumping, life is all about “jumping” obstacles, especially in writing. Problem is, with a lot of writers the biggest ones are themselves. See me raising hand. So, I say hold…
That First Romance Novel
This is one of the t-shirts I designed to Celebrate Books! It’s at The Write Snark : CafePress.com. I’ve been writing on and off for fourteen years. More if I count all the melodramatic poetry and horrendous re-dramatizations of my favorite romance novels in my teens. I was twelve or thirteen when I discovered romances….
Juiced
So, today I’m sitting in Barnes and Noble, writing in this cute little 1.99 notebook I’d just bought along with what looks like three really good books. I’m not reading them — I’m writing. Dreck, but writing nonetheless. I’m drinking a Juiced Tea by Tazo. Yum. Mind is wandering because some young guy is checking…
Keep it Simple. Keep it Real.
When using description, I had to teach myself not to overdo the details. It was a long, hard lesson, but I learned. A few simple, well descriptive words can make all the difference. Here’s an example from one of my short stories. Her Ma’man murmured of ghost summers when the heat became a living thing…