So, I'm on a writing spree in a beach hotel. I come home Friday after happy hour, all happy and whatnot, only to find out that the electric company cut me off. I was two days late. TWO DAYS. And I didn't have an old balance or anything; I had paid my last bill in …
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The Dreaded Synopsis and Other Ghastly Terrors
I think writing is probably very similar to other crafts in certain ways. You start out with passion and little or no actual knowledge. Through practice, study, more practice, more study, you follow the age-old path from apprentice to journeyman to initiate to (one hopes) mastery. It's a long process, and if you don't have …
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On fractals, math, art, creation, the universe, quantum physics and, of course, writing.
I'm a writer, but I love art in any form. I can (and do) spend hours looking at sites like Pinterest and Tumbler. I'm all about feeding your head and your muse, but also, I just love art. Here's an example from one of my favorite artists, Chris Achilleos. This is the sort of thing …
New Year, New Blog
Sorta. I pretty much abandoned my livejournal blog in 2012. No particular reason; I just didn't feel like blogging. Recently a spam comment led me back to an old lj post where I was ruminating about blogging and why I started one in the first place. Reading it made me realize why I lost interest. I approached that …
Dark Matters
Passing this along for the poets out there Dark Matters, Bruce Boston's 30th poetry collection, is now available for preorder through the Horror Mall and will be out in early July. http://www.horror-mall.com/DARK-MATTERS-BY-BRUCE-BOSTON-trade-paperback-edition-p-20912.html Dark Matters collects 49 poems, including six that have never appeared before in print. It is illustrated by award-winning Italian artist Daniele Serra. …
Morgan Sylvia 