Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tweet Greetings, my dear inklings! I come to you today bearing tidings of the sci-fi nature. “Sci-fi nature” — is that an oxymoron? No matter! (Anti, dark, or otherwise.) What’s on my mind today is that I’m reading a terrific book right now, and I’m going to attempt to tell you about it without giving […]
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Also tagged Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold, Charon: A Dragon at the Gate, Jack L. Chalker, Lilith: A Snake in the Grass, Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail, Paranormal, Point of View, Sci-fi, The Four Lords of the Diamond, Work-in-progress, Young Adult
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
I love my Christmas stuff. But after awhile — especially after New Year’s — it starts to become just that: stuff. It turns into clutter, and I can’t see my life through it anymore. Sometimes, dear inklings, our writing is like that…
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
You know how we speak of someone’s being well-read? In some circles, I’d be the opposite of that: terribly-read. I can hold forth on plot and character of a great many classics so convincingly, you’ll come away from our tête-à-tête thinking I’m all sorts of brilliantly literate. You won’t know that when it comes to classic literature, I’m kind of a fake…
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Also tagged Abridged novels, Ben Hur, Bloody Mary, Captains Courageous, Catherine of Aragon, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth I, Google, Henry VIII, Herman Melville, Jessie Sanders, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lewis Wallace, Literature, Mark Twain, Moby Dick, NaNoWriMo, Oliver Twist, Rudyard Kipling, The Prince and the Pauper
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Many moons ago — before Facebook became open to the general public, when “twitterpated” was still a Bambi and not a social networking reference, and before YouTube made movie stars out of all of us — I started a blog. I don’t remember why I did it. I plunged into writing my first post without giving it any real thought before I started. I hadn’t the foggiest idea what I was doing…
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Also tagged Bambi, Blogging, Court Can Write, Creative Writing, Editing, Facebook, Html, Marble Statue, Perfectionism, Robert A. Heinlein, SexyBookmarks, Social Networking, Star Wars, Twitter, Twitterpated, Unstressed Syllables, YouTube
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Sometimes, a writer’s just gotta get clean. Sometimes, fellow writers, what we need is a shower.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tweet Courtney asked me regretfully to inform you that a Christmas flu has quite thoroughly humbugged her. For the first time in her long tenure here at Unstressed Syllables, we’ll have to go without a WILAWriTWe. Alas. Send her your well wishes, and know that she’ll be back to educate us all just as soon […]
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
I’m not afraid of the Dark. But this past Sunday, I got to a point in the story where I knew the Dark Stuff was coming. I looked at my computer screen, watched the cursor blink at me a few times, and said aloud, “I don’t want to write this.” I closed the file and walked away. I was in dire need of rescue…
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Also tagged @Quotes4Writers, Christmas, Commercialism, Cure for writer's block, Darkness, Erica Jong, Facebook, Fear, Inner Editor, NaNoWriMo, Superpowers, Synchronicity, The Consortium, Twitter
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Today, my snippet of courage has come to you in the form of a poem: my attempt to convey via symbols the intangible emotions — the happiness, the wonder, the impish delight — I feel at the realization that Unstressed Syllables will be a year old tomorrow…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Bullriding, Courage, Creative Writing, Fighter jet, Negotiating a Connection, Poetry, Rodeo, Scuba diving, Shooting Range, Storytelling, Swordfighting, Target Practice, The Human Condition, Top Gun, Unstressed Syllables, Words
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
I follow several writers on Twitter, and because I’m a fiend for collecting quotes, I’ve discovered Twitter’s a source for oodles and gobs of great writing material. I would be remiss in my responsibilities if I didn’t share some of that goboodled wealth with my precious inklings! So here ya go…
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Also tagged @Quotes4Writers, @SteveMartinToGo, @Tara_Moss, @TWLOHA, @WritingSpirit, Aaron Pogue, Compulsion, Courage, Editing, Fear, Inner Editor, Julie Isaac, Laurel & Hardy, Marble Statue, NaNoWriMo, Sol Saks, Steve Martin, Tara Moss, Teresa of Sydney, The Writing Life, Tweets, Twitter, Winnie the Pooh, Writer's Tribe
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
In which pre-writing is my BFF 4-EVAH.