Quotable George Orwell
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will …
Read MoreMonth: January 2013
Sorry, We’re Over
I’ve got a back-up, but it’s old… I think I’m just going to take this incident as an opportunity to start over. At some point I may put the old …
Read MoreCreativity Inspiring Picture Dice
So I picked up a set of Rory’s Story Cubes at my local Target. I saw them and immediately thought they’d be a great writing exercise generator. As you can see in …
Read MoreAll Is Not Lost
I found a back up file from the way back machine, May 5th 2011. So using that I was able to save a lot of blog posts. And looking in …
Read Moreall is not lost
I found a back up file from the way back machine, May 5th 2011. So using that I was able to save a lot of blog posts. And looking in …
Read MoreQuotable F Scott Fitzgerald
Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke. –F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read Morearohen has fallen and will take some time to get up
Had a site crash and lost some data. Or maybe the site got hacked. Not sure which. I changed passwords and implemented some security and back-up procedures to keep this from happening …
Read MoreSite Crash
The old site crashed or got hacked. Whatever the case I lost some stuff and then I deleted some other stuff. Not sure what all I’ve lost and what I’ve …
Read MoreQuotable Ernest Hemingway
Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do? Hemingway: It depends, I re-wrote the ending to “Farewell to Arms,” the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. Interviewer: …
Read MoreQuotable Erica Jong
The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning. – Erica Jong
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