Posted in Kettle chat, ideas, writing on November 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Kettle’s recent post, Do Overs, made me think of something I’ve been musing about for some time. She started the post with the following quote which I’ll just snag in it’s entirely.
From Madeleine L’Engle {Herself} : Reflections on a Writing Life, p. 19
With free will, we are able to try something new. Maybe it doesn’t work, or [...]
Posted in COD, Kettle chat, NaNoWriMo, Sweat 2, ideas, progress update, writing, writing journals on October 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m still not getting anywhere new, really, with my notes. Mostly what I’ve been doing is writing down blocks of questions that want answering, but the answers aren’t coming. I’m not part of this world. I don’t own this story, and I’m not intimate with these characters.
And because I am Pot, I was talking to [...]
Posted in Kettle chat, NaNoWriMo, ideas, nano, progress update, tools, writing on October 11, 2007 | 9 Comments »
In her post today, Kettle talks about all the writing programs we’ve been looking at. She mentions how I didn’t like PageFour because it wouldn’t let me type in pink. I’m sorry to tell you that this is essentially true. (ETA: I have been just been informed that the latest version of PageFour does allow [...]
Posted in Kettle chat, blogs, ideas, insecurities, love, rant, writing on August 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cliches. Sometimes as a cliche matures, it kinda takes on a life of its own. Not too long ago I read:
They’re often tired similes and metaphors that no longer inspire comparative thought (“a drop in the bucket”).
Thing about it is, when a phrase is carelessly tossed around enough, people stop talking about what it means. And they [...]
Posted in Kettle chat, ideas, love, romance, sex, writing on August 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yeah, I would say that today the conversation Kettle and I had about what means Romance was more of a debate, since we each had some pretty different opinions. Her post today is called What Makes a Romance. Even though I’m going to excerpt the [expletive deleted] out of it, do go over and read [...]
Posted in Kettle chat, writing on August 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This post started out as a comment to Kettle’s post today: Write Like You Talk…. But as it got away from me and I started taking over her comments, I asked her, “Do you mind if I write my own post in response?” She was gracious enough to say no, she didn’t mind at all, so [...]
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