big city –
smart car passes
pink humvee
Quotable 259
Sometimes I think works of fiction should be unsatisfying. Because a story is not a sandwich. Some stories should leave you hungry.
– Charlie Jane Anders
haiku 370
under the bumper
black feathers still flap
in the breeze
Quotable 258
Write first. The confidence comes through the process.
– Cathy Presland
haiku 369
muggy summer night –
four young raccoons
prowl the back yard
Author’s Note: Now Comes September
Yeah, so I took August off…
The first week, I simply couldn’t do anything. Even though I had some haiku written and plenty of quotations available, it was too much effort to open the back end of my blog and post two things. After that, I just decided to take the month off, promising myself I’d get back to at least the usual minimal posting in September.
So here I am again. And let’s hear it for muscle memory that let me remember my password to get into this place.
Thank you – so very much – for checking back to see if I’m still here. I have a great desire to write a story, a desire I haven’t felt for a long time, thanks to the CFS. I hope I can translate that desire into something worth reading before too long. Meantime, a haiku based on looking out the back door. (Plus! a new background and new text area color to try to brighten things up. What do you think?)
A Good Read: Smaller Stakes for a Bigger Story
Author John Scalzi has posted some thoughts from author Gary Whitta, in which Whitta tells us that a focus on a more intimate storyline rather than the Hollywood standard “We’ve got just 30 seconds to save the whole universe!” can make a far better story.
Whitta’s words seem wise to me, and I urge you to go read them.
Quotable 257
Fiction can sometimes tell the truth better than facts.
– Tony Hillerman
haiku 368
through a break
in the trees
tornado
Quotable 256
The less conscious one is of being “a writer,” the better the writing.
– Pico Iyer