Telling isn’t believing
Show ‘n Tell
Telling isn’t believing
The Dump Revisited
Discarding the accumulations of the past, poisoning the future
Reflected Glory II
Basking in the bright shinyness of secondhand success.
Resurfacing
Writers are always under attack, no matter what they write, but romance writers and their readers are scorned, ridiculed and pilloried.
Surfacing
Polishing, rewriting, revisions – the payback for hard work
Going to the Dump
The completion of a fourth novel demands a soul-searching exercise when you have yet to publish one.
Awe
I’ve just read the Writer Unboxed blog The Elements of Awe, Part II. He asks when was the last time you picked up a book and felt that you were shaken to the core. I’m still thinking about this. There have been so many books I’ve read over the years but very few in recent […]
Magnum Opus
Working through “truths held to be self-evident” on Good Friday
Dilettante or Renaissance
One of my professors, way back when, once gave this advice to the young writers & poets in his class: (I paraphase) ‘take courses in biology, not writing.’ If we had all taken his advice, he would have been out of a job. I wonder sometimes if teaching writing isn’t a good way to avoid […]
Reflected Glory
Reflected glory works for some – for others it is only a moment that reminds you that you still have work to do.