If you don’t know about Jake Shimabukuro (as I didn’t two days ago), you should. Because this man is an artist. He doesn’t let anything stand between him and his art—not the difficulties of his chosen craft, not assumptions about any particular piece of music, not preconceptions about his instrument…. Read more“Falling in love with the ukulele”
Category: Fascinating Stuff
Everything weird and wonderful for the mind of a writer
Catching up on 2009 in 2010
Happy New Year 2010 to you all! I hope you had as peaceful a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as we did here at our house, ensconced by the fire by a lovely (dying) tree all lit up, towers of new books next to everyone’s chair, sleeping cats… Read more“Catching up on 2009 in 2010”
Blowing your mind in October
You’ll notice that today we’re blowing our minds with a certain amount of advice on screenwriting. Yes, screenwriting is a close enough cousin to fiction that the serious fiction writer can take enormous assistance from screenwriting advice, without the extra hassle of having to deal with Hollywood. Alexandra Sokoloff uses… Read more“Blowing your mind in October”
Scanning far and wide
So far I have managed to spend almost the entire day wrestling fruitlessly with my website. Always a rewarding exercise. Today I’m going to highlight stuff off Twitter I wish I had time to engage in long, witty discussion about, like: Agent Jenny Bent‘s unexpected decision to hate sentence fragments…. Read more“Scanning far and wide”
Blowing your own mind
Let’s call this Blow Your Mind Monday and look at ways to approach your Work In Progress from mind-bending perspectives. Keep in mind that the more creative you are with brainstorming, the more time and daydreaming and investment you put into knowing your characters and what happens to them both… Read more“Blowing your own mind”