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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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It’s hard to believe that we’re practically half-way through September already, but the calender does not lie. In a month and a half, I will be officially closing the Submissions for my first attempt at a literary review, World Unknown. I have, unfortunately, not had the time to promote it as much as I would…
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“…it would be exactly like the Mycenaeans to draw it instead of domesticating it.” “Greece in the Bronze Age” by Emily Vermeule Anyone who knows me knows that I’m an absolute nut for books, especially old books that appear to have seen their fair share of use and enjoyment through the decades. When my fiance’s…
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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…
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“She had felt somehow that she, by mere exertion of will, could keep him alive, could bring him healing. It seemed impossible for him to die while she lived.” “Magic: The Gathering: The Thran” by J. Robert King Everything has a beginning and this stand-alone book in the Magic: the Gathering series is the beginning…
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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” -W. Somerset Maugham Whenever you publish a new post on WordPress, I’ve noticed they always present you with a little quote following information on how this is your five-hundred and whateverth post. They’re amusing, more often than not, and I…
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” ‘…When a man becomes a writer, he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.’” “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. As a fan of the few Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. books I have read so far, I was extremely pleased to find an old, endearingly battered copy…
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L.S. Engler 