One of my projects for D’vorah Lansky’s thirty-day course creation challenge, is to write a simple fiction writing book for beginners that would serve as a manual for the course or a stand alone reference book. Today’s assignment is to title it. In my experience, it takes time to get a title right. I’m […]
Psychiatrist Judson Brewer: A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit
http://www.ted.com shared this short video of Judson Brewer talking about: A simple way to break a bad habit. It’s less than 10 minutes in length. He mentions eating disorders and smoking addiction, but for me, it also applies to procrastination in sitting down to write. All you writing procrastinators or those of you (and […]
Funny Dog And Link To Collaborative Story
Funny Dog. On my other blog http://jkleist-corwin.com/ I have been posting a collaborative story that is in my anthology, Written Across the Genres, available at local book stores and on line. I will post the last scene tomorrow. That version was from my morning writing class that had more members. In the future I will […]
Vote For Topics of Interest
I have several ideas for on-line courses I could organize and teach. I’ve taken 3 to 4 or more during each year since 2007 and I know what I like and don’t like in how the classes are presented. D’Vorah Lanskey, http://reachmorereaders.com, has a class on creating course content. My first assignment is to decide […]
Vote For Hada’s Fog Book Cover
The fog photo I’ve been using to blog my novel, Hada’s Fog was one I Googled in free images. Vikiana on Fiverr designed the two book covers I’ve posted here. https://www.fiverr.com/ This first one could be a younger Hada. This second one has an older person’s type of dress which […]
Quotes About Writing
Catherine Brady says in Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction, “Rather than reduce motive to a single explanation, the real problem you face is to compound motive rather than declare it–To know how not to know.” Gertrude Stein once said of the writing process, “It will come if it is there and if […]
Hada’s Fog Chapter 12, Scene 2 Has Been Posted
I have posted Chapter 12, Scene 2 in Hada’s Fog. See menu above. Hada’s grandchildren, Esther and Judi, are minor characters yet their actions move the plot along. They appear in previous scenes and in this one for the reader to know their personalities and to care about them in future scenes when they […]