This was circulating on Twitter last week, and look, we all know it doesn’t take much for me to tear up (whether through joy or sorrow) anyway, AND the songs from the musical Wicked are pretty much guaranteed to trigger the waterworks, so it’s not really a stretch to imagine how I felt watching this […]
Because I Knew You, I Have Been Changed For Good Read More »
This is just about the most important lesson I’ve learned this year: fail to success. That’s Dean Wesley Smith’s way of putting it, but it’s another spin on the old saying, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.” Way back when, when my son had just been born and
Wow. Wow-Wow. So, as you know if you’ve been following along, I spent last week in Las Vegas for the WMG Writing Business Masterclass with a host of incredible, amazing people – participants and presenters alike. I have 50 pages of handwritten notes, an action list longer than my arm (which I need to sort
Catching Up: Why I’m Going To Stop Spinning And The World Isn’t Read More »
Just thought this was worth reposting 🙂 (Not that this is *at all* relevant to me the last month, HA) Read more:How To Theme: Chapter Ten – Why Stories? Social Co-operationInkprint Press Market StallsDodgiest Made-It Monday Ever
People Don’t Go From 0 – 60 Read More »
See yesterday’s post for Reasons 1 through 3. REASON FOUR: SOCIAL/POWER STRUCTURES In all of this, there may be some interesting things going on with our background psychology. Some monkey scientists (as in scientists who study monkeys, not, you know, unusually inquiring and intellectual monkeys) have suggested that when monkeys groom each other, it’s not
Five Reasons Why Fiction Is Critically Important In Human Culture (pt 2) Read More »
One of my friends got tangled in an argument on Twitter last week about why fiction even matters in the first place. Conveniently, I actually addressed that in one of my recent non-fiction books, so I thought I’d repost here tagged accordingly. This is in two parts – part two will post tomorrow. Storytelling
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It’s taking me a bit to catch up from the craziness of this term, but I’m getting there. I have a couple more major things that need doing in the next two weeks (before I go to Vegas, OMG I AM GOING TO VEGAS IN LIKE JUST OVER A WEEK, ARGH!!!!) but once that’s done,
I’m Alive, I Promise (With ALL The Cover Reveals!) Read More »
Juggling is hard. It takes skill, and precision, and determination. And when you can juggle six balls with ease, eight balls with confidence, ten balls with concentration, and are living life constantly at thirteen balls… You can get hysterical when failure arrives. Or you can toss your failures up in the air and watch them
Glittering, Glimmering, Gilded Read More »
Read more:**Emergency Tea Only**Are You Crazy Busy?Humanity Is AWful; Humanity Is Kind. (I Dare You Not To Cry.)
Thought of The Day Read More »
Anything can be critiqued. Criticizing something is easy. It makes the critiquer feel smart, and just a little bit superior to the writer. But that kind of critique serves no real purpose, because that kind of critique is wrong from the moment the critiquer picks up the story or the manuscript or the 400-year-old play.
Thought of the Day: Critiquing is Easy. Doing is Hard. Read More »
