Google-Man!
Has Google gone all Pac-Man for everyone? Or is it just me?
Prospero In Hell!
Courtesy of the multi-talented cdenmier
Sigh
Wanted to post the cover of Prospero In Hell, but can’t figure out how to upload a PDF file to the scrapbook. Waiting to see if I can get a JPEG.
Wright’s Writing Corner: Romantic Tension…kind of
The next tip from my list of Writing Tips is: Romantic Tension: To make a character seem attractive to another character (at least to women) list a character trait of character A and an emotional reaction to this trait from character B). (example: she had an air of mystery that intrigued him. Or, her…
Anonymous Gift
I just got a note from LiveJournal that someone gave me the gift of two months of LJ. I have no idea what this means or who did this…but if you–the mysterious giver–are reading this, I’d like to say: Thank you!!!!!
Wright’s Writing Corner: Writing Tips–Measurement By Example
Measurements by example: Tall as a man, rather than six feet high, where applicable. Hmm. I have promised to write a post on each of my on each of my Writing Tips. Not sure I have a whole lot to say about this one, though. It is pretty straightforward. This idea was suggested by…
Natural Speech School
I felt that the school of writing represented by the Society for the Redemption of Adverbs needed a name. After all, thanks to Mosellegreen, our opposition has a name: The Heming Way. So…we are now the Natural Speech School…because real people use adverbs in real speech. We even have an anthem, from which we get our…
Iron Man 2 — Wow!
‘Nuff said.
New Word: Twitternatural
Last night, in my sleep, I coined the new word of “Twitternatural.” Being that it was a dream, I do not know if this meant “It’s natural” or “Preternatural.” Weird, since I am not a Twitterer (Twitterite?)…but funny.
Wright’s Writing Corner: Guest Blogger Jordan McCollum on Suspence!
Hey folks! Welcome fellow writer Jordan McCollum and her wonderful insights about that wonderful tool of the suspence writer, The MacGuffin: The presence of suspense is . . . a feat and shows promise, since it indicates that the writer is writing more for the reader than for himself. (Noah Lukeman, The Plot Thickens, p.…