Monthly Archive: October 2013
Featured Poem 10/7 – “Sonogram”
Sonogram by Jennifer Chang Dark matter, are you sparkless for lack of knowing better? The room you’ve spun is distant and indivisible— a flickering lapsarian, you satisfy no mute progress but collapse, spiral,...
Talking with writers – interview about characters
Welcome to Character Circus ~ where they like to let you think you are the one pulling strings. * {as you might have noticed, I happened to be somewhat absent recently – apologies for...
Sunday Serial: Poppy McJay #1
Welcome to the very first Sunday Serial! From this week onward you’ll be getting a weekly update of several serial stories. Beginning with the romance of Poppy McJay! Poppy McJay Poppy McJay doesn’t...
Today is the Second Annual Star Wars Reads Day
Celebrated this year on October 5, Star Wars Reads Day is when bookstores and libraries come together to use Star Wars as a way to promote reading. Press release and more info after the...
“A” versus “An”: More complicated than at first glance
Image Credit: http://theteacherwife.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-to-use-or-a-quick-writing-lesson.html It may seem like the simplest rule in the English language: use “a” when it precedes a word that begins with a consonant, and use “an” when the word begins with...
What Else You Should Be Reading: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
There are many things to be discovered in the wonderful world of Twitter. One of those things is a contest regularly run by a certain literary website for a new columnist. Successful auditions land...
Stephen King on Twilight vs. Harry Potter
“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.” – Stephen King Agree?...
Poetic Forms: Compendium
As I stated last week, I’m going to be taking a break from writing these, but before I go, I wanted to link them all in one post so you can bookmark this page...
No one wanted to publish Tom Clancy’s First Book
Growing up, “The Hunt for Red October” by Tom Clancy was a big book in my household, owing chiefly to the fact that my dad was a Naval officer in the US submarine fleet....
