As I mentioned before, the criteria for being on my blogroll is that I feel a certain blog has proved to be a noticeable influence on whatever I’m doing in my own blog. There are a long list of blogs, however, that I read just for enjoyment. Here are four of the best-written of that long [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Blogs That Don’t Belong in my Blogroll, but to Which I Wish to Link, Nevertheless
Posted in Literature, Orthodox Christianity, Writing, tagged Blogroll, Blogs, Book Reviews, Books, Church of England, Eastern Orthodoxy, Links, Literature, Reading, Roman Catholicism, Writing on October 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
A Very Poor Effort
Posted in Orthodox Christianity, Poems, tagged Beauty, Belief, Christianity, Church, Faith, God's Name, Hope, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Poetry, Prayer, Religion on October 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
What song can I sing?
I have not a word to say;
Full of emptiness,
in wordless prayers I pray
toward formless forms and heatless burnings
toward Flyers In The Heaven without wing
and know – it is not You! You are not these!
O! (Whom shall I address?)
To what bright center shall I press,
and truly say: Ah, it is you! At last?
(When will I be [...]
Book Title Giveaway
Posted in Writing, tagged Book Titles, Books, Free Stuff, Fun, Giveaways, Humor, Inspiration, Plot Starters, Titles, Writers on October 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ever try making up fake book titles? They are often, ironically, more interesting than most titles of books actually written.
Romance (Comedy, Historical)
AND TO THINK YOU WERE ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL
BARKING MAD FOR JESSE HOUNDER
COME DIVINE WILLIAM
DITCH THE DUD, SWEETHEART
EGGS, BACON, AND SONGS ABOUT MARY
FIBBING FRANK GETS HURT
GORGEOUS AND LOVING IT
HE WAS THE ONE, YOU FOOL!
I THINK MY DOG’S [...]
Link? Link!
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a fascinating blog. I don’t think I’ll put it in my blogroll as I am very choosy about what appears there… My criteria has little to do with level of ‘liking’ by the way, so don’t anyone be offended. I only put things in my blogroll that I think are an appreciable influence on me at the time.
Anyway, enjoy; [...]
Oh, Horrors!
Posted in Writing, tagged Anguish, Children Literature, Children's Books, Children's Novels, Despair, Drawing Board, Fantasy Literature, Hard Work, Hope, Kid's Books, Labor, Middle Grade Fiction, New Beginnings, Novels, Publishing, Starting Over, Writers on October 3, 2008 | 13 Comments »
It was one of my favorite expressions as a teenaged girl. I was a very odd sort of teenaged girl.
I’m in anguish. After having written a detailed outline of my Ayleth/Dragon story, and come within 5,000 words of finishing it (I can write 1,000 words in an hour) I realized two things.
One, it felt dull. [...]
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