words | words
Nov.13.2011
It has always seemed to me that the English language doesn't have enough words for love. We use the same word to do too many jobs. I think we need an International Committee, like the one studying the Dead Sea Scrolls, to categorize each kind of love and create the proper word. We could just...
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Oct.31.2011
This is a small excerpt from the introduction to a Haggadah I was commissioned to write. A Haggadah is used on Passover as a text, prayer book, recounting the story of exodus. This introduction illustrates not only the power of that storytelling but the more essential power of words:...
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Oct.29.2011
The next thing you know, these words will actually appear inside the books themselves. And if the characters ever start to incorporate them in their conversations, well, all he** will break loose.
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Profanity is making a splash in book titles...
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Oct.24.2011
As writers, we should try to keep our audience in mind while we write. We should also try to make our work readable. But, sometimes this is harder than it seems because most writers, especially me, get lost in our work. I came across this pretty interesting site via another writer. The site helps...
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Oct.15.2011
In recent weeks, I've heard a term bandied about, one that gives me pause, but one that works in a few good instances: douchebagery.
Yes, taking a harmless douche bag as the metaphor it has become and adding that y to add some punch and make it active.
Many folks these days...
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Sep.22.2011
Mis palabras sonen las lineas y coloresde la mariposa.
(Rebb reading Mariposa in Spanish)http://redroom.com/member/rebbecca-hill/media/audio/mariposa
My words arein the lines and colorsof the butterfly.
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I was walking this morning and my mind was wandering and I was thinking of writing and...
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Sep.22.2011
I've been reading. Ideas slid through my brain, droplets on glass, seen but they're on the other side. Time to bring them to this side, put them on the page and taste them. This is the exciting, nervous moment, a girl letting a boy touch her breast for the first time, a child considering a dead...
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Sep.19.2011
I'm often asked if I get writer's block and while I haven't suffered from this there are days when the words flow and the inspiration seems to come from an unknown source within me, and there are also days when it's a struggle to find the right words and know how to advance the plot....
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Sep.17.2011
While enduring shopping minutes at a mall today, I realized some words/concepts.
Blahsic. Songs from a genre or era that sounds repetitious to the unschooled ear (which means people that didn't grow up listening to it). Many experience it with rap, blues, 'old country' and the 80s techno sound but...
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Aug.16.2011
Don't Pick A Fight With A Poet
by Madeleine Peyroux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNf-T4q0zVc
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