My last post addressed story ideas and how to write down the ones that come to you before the idea disappears. This post will look at idea in more depth. In Catherine Brady’s book Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction, she states that a writer can discover the right plot for an idea. “But […]
Story Ideas Come and Could Go
Katherine Mansfield, a prominent modernist writer of short fiction, wrote, “It’s always a kind of race to get in as much as one can before it disappears.” She was referring to a story idea that arrives and needs to be written down. It’s best not to think about it too much. Writing allows things to […]
Writers’ Quotes
“The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.” – Byron Katie “The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.” – Oscar Wilde Jill, the protagonist in my novel, Norman in the Picture, lives by the above quote. It’s […]
What Did You Do New Years Day?
What did you do on this auspicious first day of 2015? As you can see, I was floating under the Golden Gate Bridge…in a boat, of course. A friend of ours bought a 35 foot motor boat recently and he invited us to join him, his girlfriend, and his experienced sailor friend for the first […]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all my family, friends, fellow writers and bloggers. Wishing everyone excellent health, joy, love, and success.
Rhetorical Devices Anastrophe and Antanaclasis
Anastrophe is the deliberate changing of normal word order for emphasis. For example: “Enter the forest primeval.” “On a black cloak sparkle the stars.” “Bright he was not.” Antanaclasis is when the same word is repeated but with a different sense each time. Antanaclasis creates comic effect when used in the form of irony and […]
BellaOnline Ebook Awards-Gold winner for SF & F: The Keepers of Éire
Way to go, Jordan. Congratulations.