Social Alchemy: Celebrating the Creative Spirit
Introducing: Piper Bayard, An Independent Spirit This post could fall under the category of “why I love the internet.” A couple of years ago, when I made my first foray into the electronic soup of social media, specifically Twitter, one of the first people I met was Piper Bayard. After only a few short […]
Yes, I used a strong word in the title of this post: “hate” because in “Several Short Sentences on Writing,” the author, Verlyn Klinkenborg quietly, simply, and very clearly cuts to the bone, every assumption you ever made about writing. Here’s a taste from the front jacket. “Most of what you think you know about […]
Hello Beautiful Blogosherians! I have some great news to report. You all may remember back in January, I conducted a personal experiment by challenging myself to write 8,000 words a day in ten days to write a first draft of my novel. I hit the wall on day six, and had about 50,000 words to […]