No post this week…
due to things at home. God willing, we’ll be back next week.
Rest In Peace, Perseus the Brave
Persie is the shaggy dark tiger on the left. I don’t recall the first time I saw him very clearly. He must have been a black-backed ball of fur. But I remember the second time. We had gone to our friends, the Carvers, to pick two kittens — this was because we had finally hit step two…
Wright’s Writing Corner: The Adverb Is Dead. Long Live the Adverb.
Guest Blog this week: the charming Charles Grey weighs in for the Heming Way: The best new piece of advice on writing I know of comes from William Goldman via David Morrell’s book Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing. The whole book is invaluable – it’s the only one I’ve read all the way through and then immediately…
“Pirates, Ninja, and Dragons–All the things that make a movie good.”
May have a guest blog today…we’ll see if it comes. Until then, the above quote about Pirates and Dragons comes from 7 year old Juss. So…what do you think makes a movie good?
Wright’s Writing Corner: Guest Blog–On Endings
Today we have a treat, a guest blog from fellow writer Joshua Young. I liked his ideas about the endings of stories so much, I thought that you all might enjoy them, too. ———————————————————- Back a few million years ago, when we chipped all of our tools out of flint and all of our computers had dial…
Guest Blog at a friend’s blog
I wrote a guest blog for a friend. It’s on Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass. You can read it here. Here’s the begining: My favorite book on how to write is Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass. Before encountering it, I was a non-believer. Writing books did nothing for me. Most seemed…
ANGELOLOGY Ascends Toward the Heavens, But Falls, Crashing
I have discovered something. I really like books with hope in them. Books with a glimpse of hope shining through the grimy darkness. I will read a whole book because of just a little promise of hope. Really makes me sad when that promise is betrayed. Tuesday Night, I was in Barnes and Nobles…
Wright’s Writing Corner: Pretty In Pink
Seemed like a nice picture for this subject.Click on picture for info on book.Includes essay by me. I am taking an online writing course this month with Writing Instructor Extraordinaire Margie Lawson. When she is not writing/teaching, Margie Lawson is a psychologist who works as a therapist, so she really gets to see people…
Overheard at the Wright Household
Usually Overheard at the Wright Househould stars one of the two tornadoes (one of whom is growing into a lovely summer day.) But today, the Cherubim gets his turn. So, yesterday evening, when the Cherubim got out of the bath, instead of getting dressed, he skipped around naked for a while (luckily his sister was downstairs doing…
Publishing Your First Book Survey Results
There may be a guest blog today. I’m waiting to find out. In the meantime, here is something fascinating. A fellow writer did a survey about first books and how they came to be published. It is of interest to anyone hoping to publish a book. You can see it here: Jim C. Hine’s First Book Survey…