Posted in Fiction, Novels, Writing on November 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Geez … It’s November 1, the day is almost half over in my part of the world and I have yet to begin on my 50,000 words for National Novel Writing Month (which I said I would do, fool that I am).
Actually, I don’t find the writing daunting. I will, but not yet. No, my […]
Posted in Fiction, Tom Waits on October 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Tom Waits, from an interview on Pitchfork:
There is no such thing as nonfiction. There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren’t talking. And the people who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up.
I concur.
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Posted in Creativity, Fiction, Novels, Writing on October 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Have I lost all sense? Probably. But despite logic, history, and common sense, I signed up for NaNoWriMo. What’s that? Well, it’s an acronym of sorts for National Novel Writing Month. And, you repeat, what is that? Well, according to their about page:
“National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants […]
Posted in Books, Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Writers, Writing on July 15th, 2006 No Comments »
This is an anniversary year. Mind you, every year is an anniversary year of something. Every day could be used to celebrate an event – public or private, births, deaths, weddings and so on. (Today, for example, The History Channel tells us, “The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden on July […]
Posted in Books, Fiction on April 16th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m not sure if it’s me, something in recent culture or a combination of the two, but I’ve recently read a number of books that have revisited the Victorian period, particularly Sherlock Holmes.
Contradictory though this sounds, they’ve been a bit like Victorian literature with a contemporary sensibility.
I’m thinking specifically of four novels (of greater or […]
Posted in Fiction, Writing on March 6th, 2006 No Comments »
I am clearly not a rabble rouser. I am not a party animal. My pleasures seem to be of a quieter sort. Such as today (which, as I write, is actually tomorrow, Mountain time - it’s already Monday).
The first part of my day was enthusiatically taken up with an online course I’m taking through NewsU. […]
Posted in Fiction on May 7th, 2005 No Comments »
I came across the blog Crime Fiction Dossier and found a posted titled Grabbing readers right from the start and felt compelled to post two of my favourite openings to novels. By the way, the idea of an opening that grabs a reader is applicable to all fiction.
Anyway, here are two of my favourites:
Chronicle […]
Posted in Books, Fiction, Writing on April 27th, 2005 No Comments »
There’s a guy. A writer. He goes by the name of Alexander McCall Smith. You can read about him here (the CBC Web site) - Automated Storyteller: The curse of the prolific author.
It appears I’m not the only person who has noticed this guy doesn’t just write. He writes a lot.
And I can’t keep up. […]
