Recently I have been caught up in a rather heated discussion about judging an author based on what they write. The basis is this: The main discussion is about Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, and how people have problems with getting through the book. Mostly it is due to her writing style, or what is in the book, but recently someone brought up ( Read more... )

On Sunday I began to think about a Selkie story, someone at the writer's group last week mentioned that my fox story reminded them a bit of the stories about the selkie, and I mentioned that I had yet to write one. I just never found a story about the seal people that grabbed me and started me writing. But now I have. On Sunday I started thinking ( Read more... )

Tonight is the writer's group at my local library. I don't know if I will be able to go. I need to get an oil change and it may end up taking longer than I would like it to. We will see ( Read more... )

Today I read a fantastic article by toxic_apiaceae called The Positives of a Negative Review. Though this may seem like a strange article to like so much it has much to do with how I move through my writing ( Read more... )

So today on brigits_flame one of the members mentioned the idea of starting up an offshoot of brigits_flame, this community would be focused on people who are interested in getting their work published. The purpose of the community would be to help these people edit and refine their work and give them resources for submitting their work to publishers. I commented on the ( Read more... )

Tonight there is a writers group at the public library. A friend of mine who attends the meetings invited me to come with her. I am fairly excited about it as this will be the second physical writers group I will have attended ( Read more... )

Recently I stumbled upon the band The Decemberists and happened to listen to the three songs they have written based on the Japanese folktalke "The Crane Wife", the songs inspired me to begin writing a story based on it, and as I wrote I started to do some research on the story. So below I am including the lyrics to the songs, as well as my ( Read more... )

Today reginaclarejane posted a fantastic poem about rejection slips, the kind received by a poet after submitting their work to be published. However, the poem could easily cover the rejection slip received by any writer after submitting their work to be published. They are painful things. A note, letter, slip of paper, e-mail sent to you telling you that your ( Read more... )

Stolen from storm_seeker

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll try to write a post about it.

A while ago I sent a co-worker of mine a few of my stories to read. I had told him about the stories and he seemed interested so I sent him the whole lot of fairy tale stories. Over the weekend he read three of them and today he talked to me about them ( Read more... )