A Medieval Fairy-tale
I've been enjoying reading Jan Phillips over the last few months: The Art of Original Thinking; Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity. Right now I'm reading Circles, and came...
View ArticleWhen writing a book...
do you THINK about it all the time? Or are you able to shut it on and off? Seems like I'm always thinking about it.
View ArticleTypewriters
What do you think of them? Do any of you use them for writing novels? Any hi-tech ones that anybody could recommend? Quick post, thanks.
View ArticleWhat are you currently reading?
Quote:"We are called to create by our ability to understand why we are here on earth as part of Creation. As creatures with the capacity of consciousness and choice, we can cooperate with and...
View ArticleOn Following One's Bliss
Quote:Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of...being helped by hidden hands? Campbell:All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands...
View ArticleKnow the ending?
Do you need to know the ending for your book while you write it? I think that one of the reasons I'm so "stuck" on this novel I'm trying to write is that I don't know how it ends, so I can't work...
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Beware the Trap of "Bore-geous" Writing
This is from the WSJ. I don't have an online subscription, so here's a scan of the article. It's pretty good.
View ArticleLorraine Evans, Kingdom of the Ark
Lorraine Evans, Kingdom of the Ark: That Startling Story of How the Ancient British Race is Descended from the Pharaohs James) What is being explored here is the evidence that Lorraine Evans presents...
View ArticleMore on metaphor
A friend posted this one on another forum this morning. I've posted pieces of Lakoff's work here. The other linguists mentioned have similar views. Any comments? Quote:Poetry for Everyday Life By DAVID...
View ArticleBreakfast of Champions
Has anyone read this Vonnegut book? I'm currently re-reading it (read it for the first time in high school), and am laughing even harder this time! It's hilarious! His writing style is so different,...
View ArticleI guess I'm still a teacher
Quote: Is the conscientious teacher -- concerned for the moral character as well as for the book-learning of his students -- to be loyal first to the supporting myths of our civilization or to the...
View ArticleIs it real??? On-line Love
Giving your heart in Cyberland Can one fall in love on line and can it ever truly be as real as love off-line. This has been a question for many since the internet appear on our little home PC's. Thank...
View ArticleNo Man is an Island
Quote:No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well...
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Quote:"There has to be a training to help you open your ears so that you can begin to hear metaphorically instead of concretely. Freud and Jung both felt that myth is grounded in the unconscious....
View ArticleDirt Music
In between writing a couple of short stories the last few days, I downloaded and read a novel called Dirt Music, by an Australian writer named Tim Winton. I found it to be incredibly beautiful, and...
View ArticleChange is a good thing.
Quote:Its like a tree growing. It doesnt know where its growing next. A branch may grow out this way, then that way, and then another way. If you let it be that way and dont have pressures from...
View ArticleCarl Jung, synchrnicity, and literature
I came across this interesting story of how a synchronistic event led to the writing of a short story by author Diane Athill. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/04/carl-jung-synchronicity...
View ArticleWriting wromance; righting romance?
It's been a hairy day for me around here (this forum). So much seriousness going on, and I'm trying to write a love story. Jake Holder is about to meet his true love. He has been mustanging with Daniel...
View ArticleReflections Over Morning Coffee
Joe's little google widget on my igoogle page has been there so long that I thought I had seen all the quotes it contained, but this morning I read this one: Quote:Life is sorrowful. How do you live...
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