Rumor is You're a Good Writer

Why authors have it worse than visual artists and musicians.

(With lots of pretty pictures!)

April

So, it's past the middle of April, and I haven't posted anything since March. I started writing an article on grading creativity, but my computer froze and I lost my wi-fi connection and the internet ate it up. So I'm not too keen on restarting that any time soon. What do I talk about? I thought to myself. What's worth forming into words, organizing into thought, sharing with the bottomless pit of internet? What came to mind are the lessons I've learned this past semester in my creative writing class.

A Nothing Character

The full version of the title: How You Know If You're Writing About a Nothing Character and How to Fix It (Without Scrapping the Whole Project). Just so you know what you're in for :)

Tips for a Writing Exercise

This weekend, I rode the train to Chicago. I had planned on slugging out words for my manuscript on my laptop, but this never happened. As things have a tendency to do, something prevented me from writing. I was distracted.

Oblivion

Somewhere in the quiet, when you forget the sound of your mother's voice, when the face of your spouse seems foreign, the mind finds oblivion. Oblivion, during an average day, is frightening to humans. It sucks in all you have until you are not yourself but have become It. The harder you listen, the less you hear. The further you look, the less you see. Rarely does oblivion visit when it is wanted. It saves its presence for the unwilling so that they might see part of it by not wanting to see it at all.