You hate the book, but you keep reading and reading.
You must make it through to the end. Why do you do that?
Aaron Wong (Don’t know Aaron? Neither do I. I’m afraid I am just fishing the blogosphere for my own blog material.) wrote a top 10 list of reasons to take a job you hate. I particularly like this reason: “The people you work with could make the … Read the rest
What Broken Hearts Has Published Fiction Left Behind?
While Valentine’s Day has passed, it is not too late to do something special for the ones you love. Something only a fiction writer can do. People who are close to writers will end up on the writer’s page. Hide behind the figment of fictional deniability and let your passive aggressive tendencies come out. Base a character in your short story … Read the rest
In court I swear I still like a little avocado polymer
to bulge and shrink the direction
I happened across a writer’s blog that should be reported for muse abuse. Apparently, based on a friend’s advice, she will poke at it with a creative writing prompt based on seven random dictionary words. After it gets all riled up with the short story that results from this prompt, she drags it out of a corner, where … Read the rest
My credo, divorced from reality:
Don’t brag about your lightning fiction writing pace,
for Slow and Steady won the fiction publishing race.
I recently read an online article on “Book Writing Tips to Speed Write Your Book for Maximum Sales Sooner”. It inspired me to write my own article on writing habits.
It’s all about the journey and not the destination, they say. I’ve taken that to heart in the fiction writing arena. I enjoy … Read the rest
Hyperminimalism in the visual arts.
Minimalism leaves the reader to take an active role in the creation of the story by filling in the blanks left by the author’s spare prose. Hyperminimalism leaves more blanks for the reader to fill, as in the following example:
Something happened. A man with glasses was involved.
I remember Mr. Yuck growing up in Virginia.
I told some Michigan friends about Mr. Yuck,
but they had no idea what I was talking about.
I preemptively hate the We Hate Your Blog blog, and I preemptively hate the post We Hate Random Thoughts.
Corner Desk in Closet
The unpublished life requires lots of sacrifice, and cash can get tight. To make ends meet until I get published and can live off royalty checks, I am renting out a room in my house. See classified below.
Unpublished Guy and his happy family offering to share their home, attractive 2-story 1940s bungalow! Immediate Occupancy! Three quarters of our family is easy going and easy to get along with. The house … Read the rest
I’m short by about 4200 pixels on this resolution.
I’ve got 11 more writing and publishing resolutions.
Happy New Year Everyone! (A day late, I know, and I just used up my lifetime allotment of exclamation points.)
The New Year is the time to make hopeful, unrealistic resolutions. Here are eleven of mine in a very specific order, that of importance, as follows: 6,7,2,4,9,10,11,1,8,3,5.
