I Look Everywhere for Writing Wisdom
By Annette Rey
I am reading a book on brain study (Too Fast to Think by Chris Lewis) and found great insight for writers or for anyone involved in a creative activity. If you can break down the elements that were present the last time you flawlessly wrote something then you can know what to look for to recreate successful writing sessions.
What this book has to say on the subject is spot on and worth your look-see.
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If You Weren’t Sick Before
By Annette Rey
OMG! Are the Medicare television commercials driving you INSANE? Over and over, on every channel. I’ve heard them so many times, I could quote them…but I won’t!
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And It’s About Time
By Annette Rey
Like most writers, I am pressured and pushed and confined to small time periods for writing and getting to a lot of nowhere with it, because of the demands of personal life, exhaustion, and the ever present day job.
Well, I have about reached my max with those distractions. The choice to write full time is strictly individual and one only you, the writer, can decide. Seeing the steps I have taken to push me over that edge may help you get closer to that life choice for yourself.
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Is Something Wrong With That Title?
By Annette Rey
I suppose most people do not pay much attention to punctuating their sentences. It’s questionable whether they consider what constitutes a complete sentence. But writer’s must pay heed to these rules for effective communication with their reader.
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Try This
By Annette Rey
What do you have to write? What small message (or large) do you think you have to offer? I know. You don’t think you have such a monumental thing to donate. Most of us believe we live mundane lives and underestimate what we can pass to others. But readers are interested in your life experiences.
What of your childhood? Go back. Somewhere you learned an important lesson, you found compassion seeing a crippled child, you heard your father yell an epithet and it chilled you, a birthday party went awry…
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Great Quotes
By Annette Rey
The quotes listed may spark a thought for a short story.
Some of these quotes may be a bit obscure. You be the judge.
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How It Works
By Annette Rey
There are many techniques a writer can use to get himself going, to break the block. I have experimented with improvisational writing and find it to be very effective in getting my mind racing forward and my fingers flying on the keyboard.
This is an easy and casual exercise to perfect.
Continue readingSo I Looked in a Book
By Annette Rey
Where do you get inspiration when a day seems dry and auto-repeating? I looked in a book for a cue, Great Toasts, by Andrew Frothingham. I found this inspiring quote by Oscar Wilde,
“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
What writing ideas do you pull from that?
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The Classics
By Annette Rey
You probably have seen the movies made from these great works written over a century ago – Sleepy Hollow (1819) by Washington Irving, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert L. Stevenson, The Cask of Amontillado (1846) by Edgar A. Poe and many more.
We are so spoiled! I mean, we live in this fast-paced society and movies are faster to digest than the time it takes to read the original novel. So movies do perform a service. They save us time.
But, has that spoiling done us some harm?
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This One is a Gem
By Annette Rey
This site came to me out of frustration because I am reading the annotated version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and it’s taking me forever!
So I was curious and wanted to know how many words are in this novel.
Look at what I discovered.
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Writer's Block No More 