Stuck? Get Unstuck Help.... Here... Really

So brilliant person, writer, reading this. Are you stuck somewhere?
Okay, so I can't help if you are stuck by the side of the road somewhere. At least not literally. That's what AAA is for.

But if you are stuck on a character, or something in your story. There's Help!! Here! Really! Check it out. You won't be sorry. You might if you don't though. At least at some point. Consider it like AAA for your writing. Except you help yourself. Okay, so maybe that's not like AAA at all. But at least you've empowered yourself to help yourself. And that will come in handy a lot more. Right?

Why Read

So we can read, and learn to write things like this -

from Kathi Appelt's book The Underneath -

.....a man who drank the hard-edged vodka brought in from Russia and the bitter gin from England, who stumbled home, just as hard-edged and bitter as the vodka and gin. ....


Pssst... a hint for those of you out there reading, be sure to keep an eye on the James River Writers site. For news coming on the Conference to be held in October.
That's all I'm sayin' ... Keep watch. ;) here uh, yeah, go ahead and look now!

Writers - What Not To Do.... EVER

Watching a career go down in flaming words right before your eyes.

A train-wreck horrible lesson of what not to do, for Any writer.

In case there's Any writer out there that hasn't seen it -

it's here.

Sad. So sad.

Huh.....

According to recent LiveJournal notice virus infected computers are called zombies.

“It's important to keep in mind that denial of service attacks are made possible, in part, by infected computers (known as zombies). Let's all do our part by regularly checking our computers (and maybe our parents' if they're not so tech-savvy) with virus and malware-scanning programs, keeping our firewalls and anti-malware programs up to date, and practicing safe surfing! “

Huh.....

Who knew.

Now that threat is even more scary than the stiff-legged stalkers of horror movie fame. It’s the stiff-legged computers we depend on so dreadfully.

Now that’s frightful.

So practice safe surfing everyone.

from zombie computers everywhere.

Dark of Day musing

The day has clouded over much the way our thinking has clouded. Perhaps not filled so much with the dark of conflict and storm but with the grey of indecision. © sc,3/30/11

Consequences and Choices

Consequences and Choices for writers....

And for Sheri, a talk about boxes. :::snicker:::

And to really think of them as buckets rather than boxes.

But for the rest of us out of the boxes -- boxes, not boxers. sheesh people. And I know it wasn't just my brain going there! ....... Was it? Of course I was thinking of boxer dog breed, of course. :::whistle, scuff::::

Anyway - This is a Great article I stumbled across. Of all places, on Twitter.

Yes, I have finally succumbed to the pressure. I have a Twitter now. And a twitch too probably. And yes, it's probably not a coincidence.

While I'm still floundering all over the Twitter tweet-scape I tripped over this -

A Bucket List for Writers

A guest post by Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com

........ "When your writing ceases to be commercial you’ve just shot yourself in the foot – at least if your goal is to turn pro – perhaps in the name of art.

The concept of selling out isn’t about writing commercially, it’s about writing at a level that’s beneath you, which is a completely different thing." ......

Check out the whole post for some great insight and ideas. It is really good. Even if just for a new way to look at boxes. :::sly grin::::

Reading, Writing, Reading, Why

I was reading a book review on a blog. One of those internet clicking things. You start out, oh, say, on Facebook. Next thing you know you’re in a blog galaxy far far away.

Interesting on the particular blog I was reading this book review on [in that far away blog galaxy somewhere] the person started out talking about why we read.

Why we read.

Hmmm, rates up there with trying to answer why we write doesn’t it?

How do you really answer that.

I’ve read longer than I’ve written. Okay so perhaps just longer than I thought about being a little more public with my writing.

The person went on about all the different reasons etc...of why people read.

Why I read. Because it’s there. Phfffff. I mean really.

Course that’s actually the answer to why I write too. Multi-purpose answer. Cool.

So yeah, there can be a lot of reasons, good, varied, or even weird [not that we don’t want to hear about those...... okay so maybe we don’t] but the real reason for me really is, because it’s there.

I’m an eclectic, and pretty much equal opportunity reader. I’ll give you the chance. So don’t bore me or tick me off with your writing.

I know most of you are better than that. So do it.

I also usually have several books going at once. For different reasons. From reading something that relates, in some weird way perhaps but still relates, to whatever writing I am currently working on. I also usually have something going for reading for just simply enjoyment, hopefully anyway - see above comment. Then there’s reading whatever someone loaned me because they are crazy about the books [Thank you Denise ;) ] Not to mention reading books by people you know, people you plan to meet, people you’ll think you’ll meet. Gee, that blog writer was right, we do read for a lot of reasons. And not one of these that I read for was mentioned. Huh.

But then still comes back to.... I’m reading it because it’s here in my hands. Or soon will be as soon as I get off here and get back to it.

So why do you read? Or just answer what you are reading. Especially if you are willing to loan it to me to read. ;-D