My crit group is waiting, and has been waiting, semi-patiently and for a very long time for the next chapter of my WIP, and I hate that. Yet I've been away from it for so long I can't feel the world, can't find the flow ( Read more... )

1. How old were you when the craft of writing called you to perform?

Pretty young.  I got the idea off The Waltons, if that says anything.

2. What's your favorite writing outfit?

I shop at frumps r us.  For me clothes are all about how they feel, not how they look.  I prefer shorts and a t-shirt, sweats if it's cool.  When it's cold I have quilted ( Read more... )

Yesterday's Muse Online workshop, titled Fine Tuning the Senses was the best so far for me. For one thing it was smaller, maybe 50 participants. For another thing the presenter, Jane Bernard, recognizes intuition as an important element of creativity, which is utterly compatible with the way I work. She came across as a very peaceful centered ( Read more... )

Today's mission:  Character Interviews.  Well, and a load of laundry or two.  And dishes.  Dinner.  The usual ( Read more... )

Fah! I do not like Ike. He blew all our power out, and today the schools are even closed because of all the damage and downed power lines and traffic signals.

Before the power went out, I'd started to write about writing and driving. Praise be for LJ's Restore From Draft. My bacon is saved.

A while back,mirtlemist wrote this post about how she writes: ( Read more... )

I posted last night, surrended the PC to Zor, and then went in to get some kind of grocery list made (so I would not be haphazardly flinging food into the cart today and then out of groceries and money halfway through the pay period) when it hit me, how to fix the last two hateful hateful chapters.

Mind you, the first niggle came while I was in IMs ( Read more... )

I've been wild to try this software, but the $45 price tag was too rich for something I wasn't sure I could learn to use, even during the free trial period Black Obelisk normally offers.

Liquid Story Binder is not creation software like Dramatica, but more for organization.  It's been compared with Scrivener, but works on Windows.  It has ( Read more... )

The coolest dang thing I've seen in a while, from the Herald Sun, via Writer Unboxed.


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This might be useful, possibly as an idea generator as I believe it's intended, or as a new cat vacuum if nothing else.

storybase.net

Invent a better cat vacuum and the world will beat a path to your door.