“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” by Marcus Tullius Cicero Does your protagonist have a room without books?
Antanagoge Rhetorical Device
Antanagoge is a rhetorical device that means: putting a positive point on something negative. (2) answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge. Example: She always forgets my birthday, but she gives me gifts during the year. He lost his job, but he’s looking forward to spending more time with his family.
What Did You Do Today?
What did you do today? Traditionally on this holiday, people dress in colorful clothes, children hunt for dyed eggs, and families have a meal together. I wore dark clothes and walked for an hour enjoying the clouds, the thin mist, the perfect weather, around 60 degrees. I had a different view than the one pictured […]
Happy Spring Holidays
Happy Spring Holidays, everyone. Enjoy the Now.
Paul Levinson’s Experiment with “The Other Car”
Here is a repost from Paul Levinson’s blog on March 31, 2015. I enjoyed “The Other Car” as an inspiring break from working on my taxes. Since I’m writing a novel about alternate realities, Levinson offered another view of how characters/people could become aware of them. The story is available on Amazon for $.99. The […]
Meet Your Happy Chemicals by Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD
I ordered this book, Meet Your Happy Chemicals by Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD. The following is a summary of what the back book cover states about four brain chemicals. I thought learning about the chemicals would be useful in showing how our POV character or the antagonist could be deficient in one or more of […]
The Missing Place by Sophie Littlefield
On Monday afternoon, our reading group will discuss Sophie Littlefield’s book, The Missing Place. It was my turn to choose a book. I had met Sophie during our Women’s National Book Association event in San Francisco a few months ago, and we met again at Town Center Books in Pleasanton for her book signing. The […]