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The things you never worried about knowing while reading Pride and Prejudice: Just what was Lizzie wearing underneath her gown? I guess it would never signify, since occassion "on stage" never called for her to take off her gown. Writing a romance novel set in the...
For a change, and for some fun and good mental enrichment, I plan to engage in a literary (but non-writing!) challenge in 2011. I found this out on the Internet. Thanks, Internets! Here's a copy/paste from the originator of the challenge. Victorian Literature...
A writer is a writer because even when there is no hope... she keeps writing anyway. --Junot Diaz Writer's block is creativity block and it can be frustrating. Many writers claim not to get it at all. More power to them, I say. Unfair are those same writers'...
“For the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place” —Rilke Rainier Maria Rilke was born in what is now Czech Republic, of humble but not impoverished beginnings. He, among other things, was a poet and philosopher, rubbing elbows, at the turn...
"A writer is a writer because even when there is no hope... she keeps writing anyway." --Junot Diaz One thing I've noticed as I begin to associate more with other writers is that our processes tend to be wildly different. What one writer does and works so well for...
This blog gets its name from the catchphrase of NaNoWriMo, "Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon." And, for the past five years, I've set the majority of extra-professional life aside to participate in the phenomenon. It has, in my opinion, paid off. I am a...
And what, you may ask, is my opinion on this matter? Well I do have one and it is a strong one. Its author is none other than Miss Jane Austen (are you surprised?) and it is penned, in the story, by Captain Frederick Wentworth. Before I post the text and my...
There have been many things said about National Novel Writing Month. Mostly good but some bad (the most ludicrous of which, in my opinion: that people should be concentrating more on reading rather than writing. That there are already enough writers out there to...
Where do you get your inspiration and ideas for anything ranging from story arcs all the way down to snippets of dialog? Well, as mentioned previously in this blog, I tend to have an, umm, temperamental muse. I suppose that is the most politic word for it. (Sorry...
