Just For Fun Friday 08/15/2014
Years ago, when I bought my house in the country, the nights were so dark that star-gazing was an ongoing adventure. Now the city lights are creeping in, and it seems that there is perpetual dawn on the horizon. This cuts down on the beauty of the night sky considerably. But this was the week […]
Do It With Style
Hemingway wrote in short, curt sentences in simple language – gruff and outspoken as the man himself. Faulkner used elaborate descriptive paragraphs. Stephen King is known for his use of foul language. Poe’s works contain very formal language, written purposefully and methodically. Other authors weave their tales as if they were being recanted over an evening […]
Just For Fun Friday 08/08/14
More musings… What does a writer look like? I read once, in one of those ‘how to be a writer’ books, that many poets really aren’t writers. They just like to look like poets. Well, I have to confess there was a time period when I worried about my ‘image’. I wanted that future book […]
How’s Your Voice?
If you were a singer, you would be doing deep breathing exercises and running scales – do,re,mi… If you were an actor or speaker, you would be doing the exercises and practicing vowels – a, e, i… …and you’d both be checking things like projection, volume, and resonance. But as a writer, voice may be […]
Stories Untold
I’ve harped enough on the subject of stories being all around us. The truth of this hit home when I read an article in the midst of the investigation of the jetliner that was shot down recently. The report revealed the identities and hopes, dreams, and accomplishments of many of the passengers of the fated […]
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