Category: Craft
Sub Categories
Choice of form to write
Staying motivated to write
Writing style
Best American Essays
I can enjoy these essays as well as study the structure the authors used to achieve their effects.
Valley of the Boom
National Geographic has a series on the internet browser wars of the mid to late 1990s. I was in commercial software development and remember when I first learned about the internet in 1990. Watching Valley…
Short Story Craft
Writing craft elements that I learned through practicing these last 10 years. Wanting to arrange in my mind, that means writing them.
Wordsmithing and Perspective
Hearing a single wordsmith perspective again and again ... the person may stop noting the image of a backwoodsman, only see an antisocial vagrant.
Up a Steep Hill
As I rode my bike up the steep hill, I kept focused on the top of the hill
Tennessee Williams Lived Here
The charm of the composing stories in the quiet, away from the hurly-burly of the Old Quarter street the house fronted, appeals even now.
Zen in the Art of Writing
Following Bradbury's advice, I do a thousand words on stories, fleshing them out. Those that retain gusto, I go with and try to improve.
Goodreads and Book Snapshots
Goodreads supported book snapshot reviews better than my site. Now I use Goodreads for my new reading.