My buddy Roy Burkhead, who lives in Mt. Juliet, outside of Nashville, sent me an email today and asked me about the difference between backstory and flashback. He’d read my post from yesterday and was pondering this deep issue. I so approve of people pondering deep issues like this pertaining to writing. Civilians think we […]
And in truth, backstory dumps do the exact opposite of keeping the reader hanging (as in, hanging on every word). Instead they keep the reader closing the book or throwing it across the room. But, I am getting ahead of myself. On Sunday I posted about how I was planning to write about backstory dumps […]
At least it is cloudy where I am, but y’all probably live in warmer and sunnier climes than us poor, pale, Northwesterners. At any rate, I am about to rearrange my office. I dragged a very old table out of the basement of my 90-year-old mother’s house and it is going to be a table […]
Over at BlogCatalog, my favorite place to hang out with other bloggers,they’ve started a new feature where you can create groups and then those groups discuss things. God, isn’t the internet great for figuring out yet more ways to waste time? At any rate, one of my favorite bloggers, Vienne of Eavesdropwriter, started a group […]
When I was on the plane to Nashville a couple weeks ago, I started reading
One of my blog buddies, Renny, suggested I answer this question for a post: How do you find your personal style as a writer? It has taken me awhile to get to it because it is a tough question to answer. Personal writing style can also be called voice and the truth is, writers who […]
Finally, I have a chance to explain what the word ekphrastic means. I can barely remember how to spell it now. And, funnily enough, Wikipedia spells it differently than I do. I got my spelling from Alvin Knox, the brilliant poet and my fellow colleague at The Loft, and truthfully? Even though I am guilty […]
I don’t really, but remember that old movie? Or was it a musical? Or just a joke? I don’t know, I think it was a little before my time, but it is such a great sentence. And it kinda describes how I feel today. Or how I felt this morning. I’m feeling better now, having […]
…because I have a good story to tell. Yesterday Linda and I set off from Gatlinburg to visit the Biltmore Estates in Asheville, North Carolina. But, ahem, we kinda got lost. Okay we really got lost. (Note to self and everyone else: do not rely on those in-car navigation systems.) I was driving Linda’s gigo […]
At least I think I know. But you will have to wait a bit for erudite me to enlighten you on that, because first you must suffer through an update of my travels. I’m in Gatlinburg, at a beautiful resort perched on the side of a mountain (well, they call them mountains in these parts, […]
