Six word memoirs and summations are popular, I tried my hand at my career.
Forester: cuts trees, plants and leaves.
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Lee Lofland over at the Graveyard Shift has asked if I’d like to do a guest column. Lee’s a retired detective who’s “solved cases in areas including narcotics, homicide, rape, murder-for-hire, robbery, and ritualistic and occult crimes. He worked as an undercover officer for several jurisdictions, and he even spent a few years as a [...] Lee Lofland over at the Graveyard Shift has asked if I’d like to do a guest column. Lee’s a retired detective who’s “solved cases in areas including narcotics, homicide, rape, murder-for-hire, robbery, and ritualistic and occult crimes. He worked as an undercover officer for several jurisdictions, and he even spent a few years as a [...] Many magazine, literary agents, publishers, etc., are accepting e-mail query letters. E-queries use a different format than the standard query letter sent through the postal mail. And, if you’re like me (unpublished but taken steps to rectify that deficiency) you don’t know what a query should look like. I found an article at Associated Content [...] THE WEEK (motto: All You Need to Know About Everything That Matters) is a great weekly news magazine. We love it. It’s full of great writing from all over the world. Well, last week on the last page they added something new, a contest. The prize was one year’s subscription to The Week. We were asked [...] I listen to the podcast of National Public Radio’s Only A Game. The other day I heard a story about the collecting of stories for The Best Sportswriting of 2008. This set me to wondering, given that, whether we writers mean to or not, we use sexual symbols in our prose (see my previous post [...] Crawford Killian has an interesting post about “Sexual symbolism in fiction“. Mr. Killian taught writing (if memory serves, though it might have been English Composition) at Capilano College for forty years and has written several novels. What brought the subject up was he had commented on the passing of Michael Crichton and how Crichton had [...] One tenet for writers (besides write, write, write) is read, read, read. Read Lousy Stuff and the Great I don’t recall where I read it, but a published author said (paraphrasing), “Don’t just read the great stuff, read lousy stuff too.” Online Slush – YouWriteOn.com A couple years ago, I put the first ten thousand words of my [...] In case you missed it, there’s an interesting post on edittorent on the film, Synecdoche. Alicia makes some interesting points that a writer needs to be mindful of. 1. “Art isn’t life… Life is about living. Art is about selection, conflict, focus.” “I readily and resolutely resolve to not ponderously, pretentiously, or portentously contemplate; nor to passionately pontificate, nor to ostentatiously overwrite as the over-writer here does,” the wanna-be published writer purposefully averred vociferously and adamantly. |
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