Entertaining read.
New Popular Self-Help Books Share One Message: You’re an Idiot
I think the headline of this article is a bit cold and inappropriately titled, given the connotation of idiot. I’d probably retitle it to the title of this blog post, a subtle but appropriate difference while being no less intense.
The article reminded me of being [...]
Got an email from my friend Alex through the writing club that I’m a member of, and thought the idea was a lot of fun.
The article that Alex found: If You Could Write a Memoir in Six Words, What Would It Say?
And the site it originated from: www.sixwordmemoir.com
Mine came to me in a moment:
Wish [...]
A couple of months ago I got hooked on the blog Becoming a Writer Seriously after the author and maintainer, Tom Colvin, made a comment here. I’m now a regular reader of his blog, and recommend it to anyone who spends even the slightest amount of time writing anything.
I read one of his earlier articles, [...]
Now available for download, in unlimited-edition format, new but not improved, Don’t point that sword at me unless you intend to use it. See the results of writing a story, over a period of 23 days, with no greater goal than reaching that 50k word count.
Checklist of accomplishments
Plot holes - YES
Misspellings - AMEN BRUTHA!
Massive Grammar [...]
Phew.
Ninja’s and plot bunnies bite my ass.
Caffeine and a great wife is all I needed.
I completed Script Frenzy with more than half of the contest time remaining. I’m only slightly ahead of target with 16,828 words for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).Participating in NaNoWriMo reminds me of my long ago Kung Fu training. If my old Sifu was running it, my conversations with him would sound something like this.
Me: [...]
November 4th and the 4th day of National Novel Writing Month. After a rough start, we’ve kept on and caught up with where we should be in my word count for this contest. I say we because I had the first contributor, besides me, on my nanowiki. Yay! She signs her name as “Ellen W-T,” [...]
Last Sunday I attended an excellent writers workshop. The California Writers Club, Southbay Branch hosted and James Dalessandro led. Too information rich to perform a total brain dump here, but some highlights were:
You’re allowed one big lie in any story, but the rest has to be logical.
Take the movie Big. The lie: a 13 year [...]
Unless you’re a stellar editor, write damnit!
Submit your writing to others in the group.
Drink lots.
Critique.
Drink more.
Drink only when reading and not reading.
Never speak obliquely, always in the face with all comments. Spit.
Use excessive profanity, be imaginative and fart occasionally.
Be particularly hard on the educated, the experienced, the knowledgable, they don’t know shit.
Toss all the rules [...]
I don’t want to write these books, but I’d love to see someone else do it:
The Giving Cow by Shel Silverstein
Fooled you all, I’m Actually a Closet Homosexual by Adolph Hitler
I Miss Cocaine by Robin Williams
What I Learned in Jail, a children’s story by Paris Hilton