Random Musings
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So, this image was posted on reddit the other day with the title “Would you?”: Apparently, that’s La Casa del Árbol in Ecuador. My first, initial thought was “nope, nope, nope!” but as I looked at the picture some more and actually thought about it, I realized how incredibly breathtaking and unbelievable it must feel…
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“I’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.” –Danielle Steele Browsing through some blogs the other day, I gleaned this striking quote from CommuniCATE Resources for Writers‘s post on romance writer Danielle Steele. Now, personally, I haven’t ever read a Danielle Steele novel,…
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” -Douglas Adams. As I did a quick search for Writer Quotes, thinking that it has been far too long since I’ve done one here on the blog, this gem from Douglas Adams was the first to pop up. Now, as an…
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Lately, I’ve been entrenched in an awful lot of transcribing, as I’m happily filling up many notebooks and I want to get those drafts committed to a typed copy sooner rather than later. The nice thing about transcribing is that it can work as a little bit of a light edit, in that I keep…
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In idly searching on reddit again, I came across this post in r/writing and liked it enough to want to share it. Besides, it seems topical, since I just posted my review of Danielewski’s House of Leaves the other day. Here is a piece of an interview in which Mark Z. Danielewski explains to us…
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Every so often, a thought hits me and it inspires a mild panic in me, and a great desire to have more time to do what I truly love (which is writing, duh). Ever since I pooled together all my short stories of the past decade and put them together to publish Bowlful of Bunnies,…
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I can think of very few tests to your will as a writer than transcribing your written draft into a typed one. Having about three different projects for which I have filled up entire notebooks already, I decided it was time to get a jump-start on the typing portion of my writing by going ahead…
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One of the skills I’ve been trying to cultivate this year is the ability to keep plowing through a manuscript, even if I’m not “feeling it.” The most important thing is that I’m still writing toward an end point; making it perfect and improving it can wait for the edits. I’ve found that I’m very…
L.S. Engler 