Writing lessons and the writing life
Word count: around 1,400
Music: Bellevue Jubilee, their only album Deep Dark South
The song Just The Moon will play over the credits of Gordath Wood when it is made into a movie. : -)
Do you ever read Salon’s advice column, Ask Cary? It’s a freaking train wreck. I usually ignore Cary’s answers; the real entertainment is [...]
WC on Sunday morning: 1,257
WC on Monday night: 1,130
Total so far: 48,640
Music: Christmas Adagios, a collection of beautiful classical pieces, some choral some instrumental. There are two Ave Marias, one by Pavarotti and the other by Leontyne Price. Also Vivaldi’s Winter Largo, which breaks my heart every time I listen to it.
Sunday morning I wrote [...]
Words: kind of lost track, but I think about 1,500. I forgot to mark the starting number and there was some infill.
Music: Silence is the new ritual. Or maybe it was the whirring of the dryer (my office is in the pantry/laundry room). It’s rhythmic and undemanding.
Yeah, seriously, maybe what this means is that ritual [...]
Words: 943
Music: None. huh. What does that say about rituals?
We were sitting in the swing in the backyard, just enjoying the twilight before the mosquitos came out in droves, when Ben spotted the owl in the hackberry. He just kept his eyes on us while we got the binoculars for a closer look. He wasn’t a great [...]
Words: 2,035
Music: KGSR Broadcasts Vol 16. James McMurtry has an amazing voice
A lot of words tonight, probably because I didn’t write all weekend. Saturday we spent at the park watching A play ultimate Frisbee. We got about 4 or 5 inches of rain on Friday and Saturday, so the kids were sliding all over the [...]
I loved this story, for the fantasy and the heart and the humor and the humanity and the sorrow. If you love good fantasy, you will pick up a copy of the April 20 New Yorker. You will not be disappointed. For some reason I always get my New Yorker way the hell past the time the rest of the [...]
If you’ve been listening to NPR today you know that The Elements of Style is 50 years old. This is the book commonly referred to as Strunk & White after its authors, William Strunk and E.B. White (Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web).
Writers don’t need much — in fact, a case can [...]
Slate has the article here:
What? You’ve not been nominated by the Webbys?
Favorite line:
“There’s so much excellence being honored on the Webby Awards site that you need a mainframe to tote it up.”
The following is a graphic post. Go away now if you don’t want to read further.
I changed my mind about The Ten Thousand. Actually, while reading it I was uncomfortable with Kearney’s casual depiction of rape in the novel. I know the difference between the author and the work and I’m not accusing him of glorifying rape. [...]
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I was sidetracked by the American Experience documentary on the Native Americans, starting with the Pilgrims vs. the Wampoag. Then I got ready to write, but family intervened and I chatted with my dear sister-in-law for close to an hour. Great conversation, but there went that.
Earlier I sat in on A’s cello lesson. His [...]
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