Listening to British Blues today. # So I did my walk at lunch yesterday and the results were astoundingly good. Thirty-plus minutes of exercise in the sunshine and open air, ten-plus pages of line-edited manuscript, and a complete framework of what the story is about. Game, set, and match. Well…not quite so fast. I’ve used […]
Read More ...Idea Walks?
The story I mentioned in the Oct 5 entry is nearing the end. It has a new title, which I like considerably more, and the framework of the whole thing works better. It may need one more element. We’ll see. It stands on its own pretty well now, though. So that’s progress. While the weather […]
Read More ...Asimov with Moyers
While fiddling around on YouTube the other day I came upon this set of videos. Awesome discussion, especially about education and learning styles, and especially given the date of the conversation. Everyone is different. Love it. Share Me
Read More ...Magic
For the past few days I’ve been fiddling around with a cranky story. It was an unhappy little thing, something I wrote in late summer and just haven’t gotten back to in order to really fix it. Upon some reflection I felt the hole in it–or at least felt a hole. We’ll see later if […]
Read More ...Garfunkel Showing his Artsy Roots
While reading the forums and listening to Radio Paradise (independently programmed radio–highly recommended) some time back, both Lisa and I came to this outstanding history and discussion about the making of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge over Troubled Water.” I love the whole technical discussion about how they got the sounds they were looking for–not specifically […]
Read More ...Calories In – Calories Out: A Fallacy?
Lisa sent me an article some time back that was about calories and weight loss and diet (meaning the selection of food types rather than the reduction of food quantity eaten). The two of us talk about this topic fairly often these days because we’re nearing the two-year mark of a process that’s seen us […]
Read More ...Rewrite Ensues
Lisa says my story in a day isn’t actually, you know, uh … finished. She is, unfortunately, so correct. Rewrite in progress. Share Me
Read More ...The Writing Muscle
I was listening to the most recent Adventures in Sci Fl Publishing podcast, featuring an interview with Kris Rusch, and she said something that I really already knew. She said that writing is a muscle, and that to write fast you just need to practice writing fast. Well, duh. But, you see, I’ve been off […]
Read More ...Born of Hope
Yeah, I know this has been around for awhile, but I just today got around to actually watching it. If you enjoyed Lord of the Rings at all, Born of Hope is a pretty neat little piece that was done by an small, independent group of (essentially) volunteers. It looks, outstanding. Very slick. And the […]
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