Daily Writing Tips
Daily Writing Tips Daily Writing Tips is an outstanding blog for writers, providing concise posts about honing our skills. This excellent reminder comes from the post “Critiquing” is not “Editing”: Critiquing is not the same as editing. If the friend is “editing drastically,” the result is no longer a critique but a rewrite. Sometimes we can forget this, eager as we are to accept help from others, and lose our voice in the process. I encourage you to visit Daily Writing Tips every day for insightful advice like...
Read Morewinter is coming
George R. R. Martin‘s “A Song of Ice and Fire” is my favorite contemporary fantasy series, so I am both thrilled and concerned about the upcoming HBO adaptation. A friend pointed out the “Winter is Coming” news and rumors blog and now I am well and truly excited.
Read MoreWhere I Write
Where I Write is a collection of photographs of fantasy and science fiction authors’ “creative spaces”. I wish my creative space were as marvelous as some of these! Where do you write? What do you like about it? What do you wish you could change? (Thanks to my writing group leader David for the link.)
Read Morenothing but the moon
On Monday, I came down with the (non-swine) flu. Since then, I have done little else but trudge back and forth to the bathroom in between naps. For now, for you, I have no words, nothing but the moon. (Thanks to borealnz.)
Read Morewedding planning mode enabled
[wedding] initial palette for gown Originally uploaded by cygnoir When my mom arrived on Monday, she asked me all sorts of questions about the wedding. I knew that I should have answers to at least some of these questions already, but I didn’t. I left her with a lot of blanks to be filled in shortly, so that when I took the day off work on Friday we could deal with some preliminary logistics. Bridezilla I am not. Our wedding day, though magnificent I am sure, will be a day, not the judgment on the rest of our lives together. The world will not implode when (not if) we have to compromise on some of the details. As a result of all this realism, I found myself at a planning loss. I couldn’t visualize anything specific that would help to kick...
Read Morethat rabbit
I know this is very old news, but I just found the painting for a patron and I am unsettled by it, so much so that I cannot stop looking at it. I had recurring nightmares as a child about a gigantic rabbit. Although he did not look exactly like this, the painting captures something of that old terror. Perhaps I am most disturbed by the girl’s expression. What is she feeling?
Read Morebig orange bird
The big orange bird carries the mother to the last bastion of American liberals! Well, kind-of liberals. Anyway: marssie is en route!
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