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How it feels to write a novel
From Flckr’s Jkim Writing books can be a long, difficult process that’s also filled with brilliant magical times. This is, by far, the best way to explain how I feel sometimes while writing. It’s a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you’re writing, and it’s like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer’s day. You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you’ll be going on your walk. And that’s wonderful. Sometimes it’s like driving through fog. You can’t really see where you’re going. You have just enough of the road in front of you…
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Date A Girl Who Reads…
This was sent to me in an email, complete with pictures. The person I got it from also learned about it through an email. As a result, I don’t know if these pictures belong to the author or not, but I think they are beautiful and add much to the words, so I’m leaving them. If you know who the painters are, please let me know and I’ll add a caption to each. At the moment, the links that the pictures include tell me nothing. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she…
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King *****
Now, I am not always such a fan of books that tell you what to do or not to do when it comes to your own writing. My reasoning for this is that I feel writing is a very personal journey and I think a lot of the how-to-write books are condescending. This one, however, is not. I don’t say that because Stephen King swears like the millworker he is. I don’t say that because Stephen King talks about being a raging alcoholic who doesn’t remember writing certain books. I don’t even say that because Stephen King talks about how he got sober and what happened in 1999…
