writing
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“A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.” – W. Somerset Maugham Lacking in anything interesting to write about today, I went on the hunt for a thoughtful writer quote, knowing them to be fairly popular with regular readers and random wanderers alike. In the Necessary…
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Now, I may be jumping the gun a little on this. I might finish up this post, get to work, hit a stride, and the next thing I know it, I’ve cleared the hurdle and everything is going along swimmingly. But, right now, as it stands, I’m pretty sure that The Unknown Scourge simply does…
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Wow, it’s hard to believe that it’s already Wednesday. I’m not entirely sure where the first part of the week ended up, but, as a result, I feel as though I don’t have much to report compared to Sunday. To my utter delight, Serpent in a Cage continues to be on the forefront of my…
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This post is going up a lot later than usual, I know, but at least it’s actually going up, unlike the last two RoW80 check ins. It’s not so much that I’ve been forgetting or that I’ve had nothing to report; quite the opposite, actually. I’ve just been very busy with a social life and…
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Sometimes, one of the biggest challenges in my life is the fact that I tend to work best on a particular schedule. I have a certain way of doing things, and when that method is disrupted, for whatever reason, it’s sometimes difficult for me to get back on track. Lately, there’s been a lot of…
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I was tentative in taking my first sips of coffee this morning, dreading a repeat of yesterday’s bizarre occurance, but, as I leaned over to draw in the life giving force, I found all was good and back to normal. Hooray! Now if only I could get some freakin’ water pressure out of the shower……
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There are some days that I cannot think of what to write in this empty blank space waiting for my fingers to fill it with typed words. There are many posts I have been thinking of doing…another Song That Inspires, or finally that post dedicated to my cats (one of whom is doing a fine…
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Hoooo, boy, here we go. Another Round of Words in 80 Days check-in without a whole lot to report. The last few days have been a little hectic, so I’m a little behind on my page count, but Chapter One is still plodding along nicely with a finish in end, so I’m hoping to get…
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It’s happened once; it’s happened twice; it has and will happen many, many more times. One of the greatest things about writing is that, sometimes, it’s not the writer who is even writing the story, but the story itself that seems to be driving the writer and his or her creativity to create some that…
L.S. Engler 