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Tag Archives: inspiration
Becoming Superman
“Style was the clothes; voice was the body. The instant I hit that realization I felt a circuit close inside me, switching on an engine in my brain. Suddenly all the little unrelated things I knew about writing (or brashly … Continue reading
Posted in science fiction, writing
Tagged autobiography, genre fiction, inspiration, overcoming child-abuse, superman, writing advice
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Forward and backward
“It was possible to read the story two ways: Front to back, the heron returned to his heron wife and the world of the sky. Back to front, he stayed with his one true love on earth.” From The Third … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, literature, writing
Tagged blarb, inspiration, literary fiction, reader expectations
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A new message of hope
“Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re My Only Hope” Princess Leia, Star Wars: A New Hope. It is customary to begin a new year with new resolutions, and even make them public to add a little bit more pressure to follow … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, literature, movies
Tagged escapism, fantasy, Harry Potter, hope, inspiration, Princess Leia, StarWars, storytelling
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Waterfalls
Ricketts Glen is a state park in Pennsylvania. It is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls. (Wikipedia). Here are pictures from a trip taken on the Memorial Day weekend. Above the waterfalls, the … Continue reading
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Tagged forest, inspiration, lake, nature, Ricketts Glen, trails, water, waterfalls
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Sophomore novel – trying to recapture first love, or finding a second one?
“The problem with a second novel is that it takes almost no time to write compared with a first novel. If I write my first novel in a month at the age of 23 and my second novel takes me … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, literature, self-publishing, writing
Tagged author, inspiration, second novel, second novel syndrom, Sophomore novel
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Greek Revival buildings in universities
Greek Revival, architectural style, based on 5th-century-bc Greek temples, which spread throughout Europe and the United States during the first half of the 19th century. The main reasons for the style’s popularity seem to have been the general intellectual preoccupation … Continue reading
Posted in academia, photos
Tagged 19th century, architecture, buildings, Grecian, Greek Revival, inspiration, style, university
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Unification
“The most cherished goal in physics, as in bad romance novels, is unification. To bring together two things previously understood as different and recognize them as aspects of a single entity – when we can do it – is the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bang, contemporary romance, cosmology, fiction, literature, physics
Tagged dark energy, History of physics, history of science, inspiration, Planck, romance
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NaNoWriMo and a dreadful first-draft
“Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writer’s job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible. Sometimes the fossil you … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, writing
Tagged challenge, first draft, inspiration, literature, NaNoWriMo, novel, writers, writing advice
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How the Milky Way Formed
The night was scented and mysterious. The wind was playing an eerie fleshless melody in the reeds of the brook hollow. The sky was dark and starry, and across it the Milky Way flung its shimmering misty ribbons. “There’s four … Continue reading
Posted in cosmology, fiction, literature, photos
Tagged angels, atronomy, children's books, galaxy, inspiration, L.M. Montgomery, Milky Way, myth, space, tales
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Special snowflakes
“Folks that has brought up children know that there’s no hard and fast method in the world that’ll suit every child. But them as never have think it’s all as plain and easy as Rule of Three – just set … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, photos, physics
Tagged children, children's books, inspiration, snow, snow crystals, snowflakes, special snowflakes, uniqueness, winter
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