In general nothing is free, but sometimes nothing will set you back a few shillings. I know, grammatically speaking, I couldn’t be more wrong. And, by the way, who still uses shillings? Let me try to explain. Since I started… Read More ›
Procrastination
Kool Challenge: Look Back at Look
My friend over at Read Tom Lucas recently posted a great response to a writing challenge (to see where this idea originated, go here): Find the first use of the word “look” in your manuscript and post the surrounding couple… Read More ›
Words in Spirals
Today is a good day. My fellow blogger JellyPom included me among her list of blogs for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. First and foremost, thank you (I will pass along the award in another post)! When dudes are jumping out of… Read More ›
Image That?
So I got to thinking: How much would I pay for a hard-drive that contained every single image captured by my own eyes? What would my autobiography, uncensored and limited only by the ability of my photoreceptors to convert light… Read More ›
REGrETs
I’d say with a good deal of confidence that regret is generally a bad thing: as a verb, it’s to feel sorry or disappointed about something and, as a noun, it’s a sadness associated with that something (for the various… Read More ›
Write Like a Maniac
“Write like a maniac,” I said. With power, there would be no excuses. I dug my rear into 36K and prepared my writing space. My words bounced off the seat backs in front of us. My new best friends, in… Read More ›
Say Hello to My Little Friends
Let’s face it, at times we abandon our friends. They are incredibly important to us; they are part of us, yet days build on days and before long we stop mid-step and realize we have done it again: we have… Read More ›
Cheeseburger in Tuscany
The sun burnt my skin, sour candy formed one of those strange bump things on my tongue, and even, just once or twice, a rogue glass-too-many hurt my head the next morning. Too much of a good thing can be,… Read More ›
I’ll Toast to That: Toast (Nigel Slater)
I loved this book. I loved it so much that I took my time reading it. There were nights I said to meself, “that is enough for now, save some for tomorrow.” I’d set it down on my… Read More ›
To Be Determined
There are a whole lot of blog posts out there on procrastination and I hope that I have read my last one (because it was really well written and on-point), “Stop Procrastinating…Now,” by Amy Gallo. I suppose it is a… Read More ›
eternal Domnation 