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 of the Boom brought some forgotten memories back. Email Scrapping The professor for the Pascal class at Johns Hopkins APL…
Writing craft elements that I learned through practicing these last 10 years. Wanting to arrange in my mind, that means writing them.
Hearing a single wordsmith perspective again and again … the person may stop noting the image of a backwoodman, only see an antisocial vagrant.
Short stories can illuminate psychological truths without the effort to the writer or the reader of a full-length novel.
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.
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.
I now have a procedure that I know works to recover my sites should the need ever arise.
Sometimes something happens and you just think, isn’t that interesting.
More action with shorter sequels is the rule in commercial fiction these days, but I mustn’t forget that the sequels must be full enough to make the skein of actions sensibly linked.
What else accounts for the difference most of us experience between the vigor of our speech and the difficulty of our writing?
