15
Apr
Music has always been an important part of my life. I played violin throughout middle and high school, I was even THE Fiddler on the Roof when we performed it at our school. In college I worked at the college station, then at a music distribution company and eventually at a few radio stations. So [...]
Tags: A Thousand Years, A-Z blog challenge, music, sting, Writing
14
Apr
Libraries! Who doesn’t love libraries? When I was younger, I used to love library day at my elementary school. Our librarian, Mr. Livingston, was awesome. He’d dress up like Johnny Appleseed and come around to all the different classrooms handing out apples. I remember he had a plaster cast of Big Foot’s footprint. We’d have [...]
Tags: ala.org, hartwood winery, Libraries, national library week
13
Apr
We met like many people do these days. On the Internet. As I got to know him, I started thinking more and more about meeting him in person. Before I knew it, I started talking about him to my friends. And every time I thought about him, I’d get all mushy inside, waiting for the [...]
Tags: A-Z blog challenge, E-Books, Kindle
12
Apr
Judgment. As a writer, or any type of creative person, it’s something you will face. People won’t “get it,” won’t like it won’t accept it for a variety of reasons. Some people are jealous that you dare to create, while others just really aren’t into artistic endeavors and just won’t appreciate it. So, what does [...]
Tags: creatives, judgment, writer's block
11
Apr
I’m sure this one will be blogged about much today for the ‘I’ challenge. So be it. Everybody finds inspiration in different ways. It’ll be great to see how others describe their ways of finding it. Mine comes in different forms. I’m amazed sometimes when and where inspiration comes from. I always know it when [...]
9
Apr
Everybody has a different idea of what makes a good, or satisfying hero or heroine. Let’s talk about some archetypes, the ones listed below are just a few standard ones. There are many more and a zillion variations of each one, which is what makes characters so much fun. Heroes 1. Standard Issue Hero: Strong, [...]
Tags: A-Z blog challenge, archetypes, characters, heroes, heroines
8
Apr
Writing is a solitary experience. I’m pretty sure that’s why writers go to places like coffee shops to write. It’s so we can say, “See? I do TO get out of the house!” But as we all know, nothing can truly exist in a vacuum. You can read all the books you want, take all [...]
Tags: coffee, critiques, writing groups
7
Apr
Here we are at Day 6 of the A-Z Blog Challenge, and today’s topic is #fridayflash. In case you’re not familiar, #fridayflash is a weekly challenge that puts writers in their chairs and has them bang out a piece of Flash Fiction. Then, you can put it up on your blog, and register it here. [...]
6
Apr
E-Books and E-Readers, this is a hot topic these days and it’s getting hotter and hotter. For a while Kindle was King, not only because of it’s library (Amazon), but because you can also use the Kindle application on other devices. But now, it has some competition. Nook, Sony, Kobo. (We’re not going to include [...]
Tags: Angry Birds, e-readers, Kindle, kobo, Nook, Reading, sony
5
Apr
For day 4 of the A-Z Blog Challenge I was stuck between dictionary and dark chocolate seeing as how many writers I know use both frequently. But then I wondered, with the Internet and computers auto-correcting things, do many people use dictionaries for spelling purposes anymore? I definitely use them to look up definitions, but [...]
