Blogs That Don’t Belong in my Blogroll, but to Which I Wish to Link, Nevertheless

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 [...]

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Book Title Giveaway

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 [...]

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Oh, Horrors!

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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Dear Mr. Christopher Paolini – About Last Night

Dear Mr. Paolini, it was so good to see you last night. I do mean ’see’ and little more, because I stood by the corner of a bookshelf and gazed at you for about a minute and then left. However, since you are the best-known person I’ve ever been within yards of, I felt it was an unevent singular enough [...]

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The Luxury of Words

 Language exists to tell the truth. Fiction, being an art whose medium is language, tells the truth by not telling the truth. Fiction is inherently complex, imaginative, and stylized.
I’m not sure that the American school of writing entirely understands this. The golden rule here is to “write tight,” as if one were composing an essay or [...]

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Evil Editor “Overlord” Entry

I whipped this up last night as an entry for Evil Editor’s latest writing excercise. Thought I might as well post it here as I have nothing else at the moment.
The theme is “300-word scene from end of evil overlord novel involving someone gloating over his own brilliance only to look like an idiot moments [...]

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In Which I Protest that While Film is an Excellent Genre in its Own Way, A Written Story is an Entirely Different Form

Enough.
I’m through with these silly rules.
I can’t help but notice that a Short Story or Novel is composed entirely of words. I must therefore conclude that a story-writer’s methods ought not to be polluted by the methods of Screenwriters.
Admit it, friends. “Showing” vs. “Telling” has very little to do with good writing as millenia of authorship demonstrate. With which you [...]

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How We Learn How To Write

Even though my own education was self-directed and patchy, I do have very pretty ideas about how people learn to write.
I am presently taking a distance writing class and I had a course or two at college. What I find is that those kinds of sources have a limited but very important function.
Their limitation is that [...]

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