Be in the moment, grasshopper

Yeah, I’ve gone all zen on you. Recently I read a post on Absolute Write in which a writer asked for advice about doing more showing and how to avoid “rushing” through the story. What intrigued me was that the person asking the question, whether she realized it or not, had already figured out the [...]

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Jim Butcher is a Nerd-of-all-Trades

And I mean that in the best way possible.  I love geeks.  I am a geek.  Geeks aren’t afraid of feeling passionately about the most obscure things.  It is their glory, that passion.  Jim Butcher has it in spades. I went to hear him read, as it was billed, at the public library in Kansas [...]

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Trying to stave off that twitchy withdrawal feeling

The thing about the internet and internet communities: instant gratification.  If you’re awake at 3 am, unable to sleep and pondering some mystery of life, writing, politics, whatever, you can find someone online who is also interested in pondering these things.  The problem arises when your preferred route to instant gratification dries up. I’m addicted [...]

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