Archive: Writing category
Today's post is a three-course meal. This is my way of justifying three topics crammed into one post instead of three separate posts. As for which way is better, YMMV.
Course #1: as I've been reading Orson Scott Card's A Storyteller in Zion lately, I started itching to ...
While spending the day with my family on Independence Day, I seized the opportunity to play the piano. We have two pianos at home, actually: one an old upright which my mom inherited, and the other a digital. Personally, I much, much, much prefer the real piano. ...
1. Be yourself. Don't try to be someone you're not. Sincerity is good, and it shows. Conversely, there's no way you can pretend to have it if you don't.
2. Care. If you write about stuff you don't really care about, it'll be painfully and awkwardly obvious. ...
Lately I've become rather enamoured of the idea of studying the masters. In my own art, I can tell that a lack of having studied other artists has stunted my artistic growth, and where I have studied the masters, I've gotten better. (The positive effect is more clear ...
Came across an excellent guide to commenting by Alex and Brett Harris, entitled Commenting for Newbies. I'll list the eight points here, but be sure to read the full article.
Understand the ‘classical’ view of tolerance
“No ‘ad hominem’ attacks, you moron!â€
Eschew Obscenity & Prohibit Profanity
He who asserts ...
My Music 201 paper is done and printed out. Phew!
Reading about Beren and Lúthien the other day got me thinking about my own writing, and it wasn't long before an idea presented itself: the war in heaven. Not only is it epic in nature, but there's a wealth ...
Yesterday I was in a particularly writerly mood as I walked home down the hill, having read the first few pages of Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write not long beforehand. Strolling down the path, I couldn't help but notice all the leaves of the trees and bushes off ...
From The Fugue, I caught word that Inform 7 has been released (on April 30, actually). I was an interactive fiction (aka text adventure) junkie back in the day, and the memories are sweet. In fact, interactive fiction is far more satisfying than normal video games ...
If you've sent me an e-mail in the last three weeks and I haven't responded, don't worry, I'm just a little behind. ~sigh~ I'm over three-fourths done with the Translating Scripture book (at least what I've got so far) and will be trying to wrap that up this week, ...
Having posted three times in Bookland and once in Digital Bridge and Beyond each, I just can't let myself go to bed without posting something here. :) And herein lies a danger: posting merely for the sake of posting, without having anything to say. It'd ...
