[A guest post from Basil Morley — or rather, a snippet from his forthcoming book How to be Dull: Standing out next to Genius, truly a guide for our times. I am helping to edit the collection together.] FOLLOW THE FLOCK Tips for blending in with the crowd Fear more, hope less. You know what gets…
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What’s New, Pussycat?
A few new things to let you know about: HÁVAMÁL After an inadvertent break, my translations and commentary of verses from Hávamál have returned over at Pagan Square. September ended up being even more of a juggling act than I had anticipated, so I am glad to finally get back to the project. Bit by…
Writer Wednesday: Finishing Things
Okay, maybe the picture is a bit heavy handed 😉 but this is an important issue, one worth repeating. When I mentioned typing “the end” on my latest novel this week, the fabulous academic/comics writer Mary Talbot wrote (perhaps somewhat jestingly), “But do you really just write to THE END then stop? What about the…
Writer Wednesday: Tracy S. Morris
I’m pleased to have Tracy S. Morris as my guest today. A fellow Broad, Tracy is not only a writer but a podcaster. She has photographed two of the Presidents of the United States, taken a hot air balloon ride and met two of her favorite sports legends from separate sports. She’s been a photographer,…
Writer Wednesday: Do It Anyway
When I was living in Los Angeles and working a full time job and trying to write seriously for the first time — on my monochrome screen with its giant CPU with a little locking clip over the 5-1/4″ floppy disk drive — I had a little note stuck on the top of the monitor…
Writer Wednesday: Awakening Imagination
I was going to say the best way to open your portal to the imagination would be to sit at your computer and shout, “Release the Kraken!” It could work! But the truth is for a lot of us,having finally carved out time to be creative, find it difficult to open up that magic door…
Writer Wednesday: Write More
I’m sending off my prose writing class today: it’s odd having two half term classes instead of one. Mostly it feels as if we barely got started and we’re done. I don’t know how much they will take in from our dizzy spin through writing. Maybe nothing. Some will continue writing (probably the same ones…
Writer Wednesday: Making Time Productive
Okay, if you’ve been following along on the How to Keep Writing When it’s Not Your Full Time Job or whatever I called it last time, then you have carved out some time to use for your writing. Now those minutes stare you in the face demanding that you be creative RIGHT NOW! How do…
Writer Wednesday: Time Inventory
Continuing the theme from last week of ‘know yourself‘ — and more importantly, I suppose, to know your habits — I have some homework for those who would actually like to write more. Take inventory! Not of things, but of time. Here’s the form. Print it out and consider a typical day. I know that…
Writer Wednesday: Know Yourself
γνῶθι σεαυτόν Pronounced gnōthi seauton, this famous Greek phrase means ‘Know yourself.” It’s been attributed to a variety of old sages, but if a thing’s worth saying, it will get repeated. Know yourself: in the context of writing it means you will get the most work done and pleasingly if you take advantage of your…