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Blog the Seven and A Halfth? |
| This is just the second blog I've had at writing.com. It seems that every time someone gives me a bit of time here, or else, I end up with a few months there, I take advantage of it. What is it with me and blogs, anyway? I'm Beth_Ensley over in my blog at Lulu.com, in case anyone's curious. |
| The turning point in the whole cycle of growing is the emergence of a focus or a theme. It is also the most mysterious and difficult kind of cognitive event to analyze. It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none. - Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| 41 Days & Counting Redux: According to the counter that I downloaded, it is now 41 days to National Novel Writing Month. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Edward Gibbon (1737 -1794) English historian --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| https://:http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/01.29/01-creativity.html: Hypergraphia, the inability to stop writing. I can think of a few NaNoers who wish they had this type of affliction. ^_^ Ar, it be talk like a pirate day, me 'earties. Avast, ye parrots. Hoist the crackers, we be chompin' off. --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| Words are, of course, the most potential drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling I am catching up on mundane matters before November. It's taking a bit of self-encouragement; but procrastination never wrote a bestseller.  Possible things to do, while preparing for November: Pre-cook things like stews and soups, and freeze them. This can also be done with pre-prepared meals, so that you don't have to resort to things like TV dinners. Stock up on snacks/brain food. When you're on a roll, you're not on a bagel. (Sorry: I can't resist a bad pun, or even a good one.) Same goes for beverages--or make sure you have enough coffee/tea to last for a bit. Basically, it's like stocking up for a fall-out shelter, only this time it's for NaNoWriMo, rather than radiation levels (I know: to some folks, there's little difference, lol). Carpool arrangements for getting your child to school. Don't worry about hiring anyone to walk your dog or cat, or ferret, or aardvark: getting away for a walk might actually help you write, when you're stuck on something; it gives you a chance to mull events over, at least subconsciously. Above all, have fun with what you're writing. By this, I mean, torture your characters to tell a story. Wait, that didn't sound right... lol. Character conflcit is rather important to tell a good tale, though; give your character things, obstacles, to overcome. Sometimes, thinking about these can actually be fun, and can be gratifying when your character does finally win out, in the end. --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| Hm, maybe that should be NaNoWriMo or Bluster? I'm actually surprised that I have a blog here;, it's been awhile. --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| NaNoWriMo is done Soon, another's begun Only, so those "in" cheer, It continues all year. For the whole, entire year. Are there enough words here? Are all combinations clear? Will the stories be told Of all the heroes bold? Far from perfect, but bold? The coffee's still warm and My cup held its form grand It's time for a refill There's words to be writ, still My fingers won't hold still The prose is the master To not write, disaster For my latest outline The last in the design It's my grand design. --I just wrote this as a response to someone else's poetic diarrhea on Lulu.com, so of course, I had to share it. *grin* Sorry... |
| Remember folks: it's is a contraction for "it is" or "it has", as in "So it's written" (so it is written) and "it's arrived" (it has arrived). It is the only word that does not have a possessive form with an apostrophe. I've already heard it from too many editors to not cringe every time I se it abused now. *sigh* --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| Okay. I finally went for the blog title Spam on a Stick: The Animated Series, because back during the April Fools writing challenge http://aprilfools.windsofstorm.net/index.php I gave mine the title of Spam on a Stick. I know it's Monty Pythonesque, but that's all I could think of on short notice. So instead of "Bloggy?" I think it's a far better title, and if anyone else who knows me from any of the challenges happens across it, well, I seem to be the only one who's abused that title, lol. |
| A happy Yule to you all Planning a fun one? I sure am. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Quinzaine http://www.berkeleyprep.org/lower/fourth/writing/quinzaine_poetry.htm --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
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