Bag o’ Links – updated
As I suspected I didn’t have the time to work out the new draft, so here’s a couple of interesting links I found this week. Top 10 Underhyped Windows apps – Our obligatory entry from Lifehacker. This one involving some …
Short Story Project IV – The First Edits
As promised, here’s the thoughts I have and the edits I plan on making to the first draft. — They had their first date here, fifty years ago to the day. Not a terrible start, and not a great one …
Short Story Project III – The First Draft
Well, here it is. Remember that this is a raw first draft, so don’t expect polish of any kind or consistency. That said, I’m okay with it. There are issues with it that need to be addressed obviously, but that …
Short Story Project II: Making A Choice
I’ve spent a good deal of time thinking about that last post, and what choice I might make for this little project. The problem of course, is actually picking one, since they all have their merits. So it’s time …
Short Story Project I: From Nothing… Something.
Ideas come in the wind, like leaves in autumn, flowing around you subconsciously until finally inspiration meets experience and influences, and then, bang, there you have it. Those are the best kind of ideas, the inspired ones, the ones that …
The Short Story Project: Prelude
Writing occupies a strange place in our collective consciousness. We’ve all written something– plodded through essays at school, put together reports and proposals at work, wrote e-mails and texts to friends and family, but yet there remains a belief, despite …
Blueprints
One of the downsides of riding the ragged edge and posting what you write that very day is that sometimes the world interrupts, or sometimes, like tonight, you end up napping when you normally write. C’est la vie, I guess. …
Happy Valentine’s
My feelings on Valentine’s Day have evolved. I used to disdain it, as all young men have at one time or another, as another greeting card holiday – another cynical money grab by faceless corporations cashing in on a universal …
So please, enjoy these links…
Just some links today, got some work on the book to do. The Winner’s History of Rock and Roll. Steven Hyden of Grantland’s take on the bands most critics ignore, but who have achieved, by anyone’s definition, massive success. The …
The Writer’s Book of Rules
What are the rules of writing? There are none. It’s simple on the face of it, but, as I’m sure you immediately realize, couldn’t possibly be entirely true. After all, every language has rules of structure, at the very least, …