Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Prompt, entertainment, funny, life, thoughts on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction, Prompt, Short Story, Writing, Writing Prompt, life, thoughts on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always been a night person. Sleep is not something that has ever come easy to me. Once I do nod off, I could sleep for a full day from the tiredness, but getting there is tricky.
When you have insomnia, you can’t really concentrate on anything. Reading becomes a chore. You go over sentence after [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Writing, quotes, thoughts on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
-Elizabeth Drew
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoirs, Micro Fiction, Prompt, Short Story, Writing, Writing Prompt, life, literature on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Probably one of the least used tools in character and scene development is the use of senses. Although action and what we see and feel is important we sometimes overlook the other senses. How does smell, taste and touch affect a character and how do these sensations change our perception?
For example, I was checking out a [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Fiction, Writing, life, literature, quotes, thoughts on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
-Gloria Steinem
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoirs, Micro Fiction, Prompt, Short Story, Writing, Writing Prompt, life, thoughts on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Writing a memoir is probably more difficult than you think, but it is a subject that each of us can try. After all, who else knows more about your memories and the perception of the events in your life better than you do?
I can remember quite clearly the first day I understood that my older [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, life, quotes, thoughts on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- John W. Gardner
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction, Prompt, Short Story, Writing, Writing Prompt on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The following was first published in Writer’s Digest in 2003.
Things weren’t working out between us. I knew him better than he knew himself, but he wasn’t getting along with the others, so he had to go. It was a shame, because I loved him. He was charming, handsome, intelligent and articulate. He came from a [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Prompt, Writing, Writing Prompt, life on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
Posted in Blogroll, Creative Writing, Fiction, Writing, entertainment, literature, reading, thoughts on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Previously, I compiled a list of books I wanted to get through this year. I’ve made some amendments (already) and I’ll be going back to this list and highlighting them as I go through them and tack on new additions. So far, so good…
The List
1. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
2. The Almost Moon - [...]
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