Some days are more inspiring than others. I find myself sitting at my computer with several tasks to do. write monthly blog post post to Facebook, reply, repost, respond get lost on Twitter, reply, retweet, comment, post write 1,000 to 3,000 words to current book review edit back from the editor redraft book back from…
A few days ago I went to a band camp concert. My daughter was one of the players. As I sat there listening to the rising and falling notes, flutes coming in as clarinets drop away, background drums rolling in crescendo and tubas filling the brief spaces in between, my heart racing and relaxing with…
Rules of Magic A couple of years ago, a fellow blogger and I discussed writing guest posts for each other. She writes in the combined fantasy/urban legend genre and hoped I could write a post about magic or how place contributes to a story. I decided to do it on how every story has rules,…
What if she was real a moment ago? It is the What Ifs that writers bring into reality. What if kids had to fight to the death to earn a position in society? What if everybody was altered to fit into one of five personality types? Questions and possibilities are what we build our stories…
Overwhelmed by stuff, use anticipation to inspire. Creativity is best when the appetite is wet. I have already said that teaching encroaches on my writing time. Remember the movie The Thing? That is the life of the English teacher: pursued by an engulfing pile of stuff. The teaching thing just eats everything up. So I…
Be ready to write Creativity is such a personal experience. No matter who we are, we search for it. A kid wants to say something funny to his buddies, a man needs a good line to catch the woman’s attention, a painter dreams of that perfect aesthetic impression on canvas, the computer programmer must revise…
The writer says E.M. Wynter has invited me to take part in another blog hop. We met on Twitter when our voids collided one day. I have invited my Twitter/Google+/Facebook friends L.A. Hilden and Madeleine Masterson to join us. E.M. has supplied us with another set of questions. They were a bit tougher to answer…
