Good Advice For Writers

Here’s a great quote from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. It’s wonderful advice for any writer, beginner or seasoned (I’m looking at you, Hollywood screenwriters). Audiences are as smart as you’ll allow them to be. You know, if you write dumb, then, you know, you’re just saying that the audience can’t handle it, which is,…

Really Listening

A quote from Alan Alda’s recent appearance on StarTalk Radio:

“Just do the thing you want to do.”

This is a wonderful piece of advice from one of the fathers of Microsoft’s Xbox video game console, Seamus Blackley. Usually, I go with written quotes, but I decided this time to try a video quote. Enjoy. 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQb2LlmSlg If you’re interested in seeing the full interview, you can find that below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7T80JJLsY

How To Write

When someone would ask me how to write, I could give them technical details concerning story layout, scene, dialogue, character development… all that good, writery stuff. But if someone would ask me what to write, there was nothing I could say. Now that I’ve seen the below quote, though, I think I know how to…

3 Days, 3 Quotes: Day 3

A sincere Thank You to Novelacious for giving me this 3 Days, 3 Quotes opportunity! Go check out her blog! As you may already know, I’m not a terribly great rule-follower, so while I should nominate three people for this 3 Days, 3 Quotes challenge, I’m going to simply ask anyone who wishes to share…

3 Days, 3 Quotes: Day 2

A sincere Thank You to Novelacious for giving me this 3 Days, 3 Quotes opportunity! Go check out her blog! As you may already know, I’m not a terribly great rule-follower, so while I should nominate three people for this 3 Days, 3 Quotes challenge, I’m going to simply ask anyone who wishes to share…

3 Days, 3 Quotes: Day 1

A sincere Thank You to Novelacious for giving me this 3 Days, 3 Quotes opportunity! Go check out her blog! As you may already know, I’m not a terribly great rule-follower, so while I should nominate three people for this 3 Days, 3 Quotes challenge, I’m going to simply ask anyone who wishes to share…

The Color Alice

I’ve recently heard U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein using this quote by the author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker, and I love it, so I thought I’d share. Hope you like. 🙂

If Everyone Was Decent, We’d All Get This Award

Here’s an excellent quote from muh man, Joss Whedon: “What I would like is to never again win an award just for being a decent person.” For full context of this quote and the award he mentioned, check out his recent Forbes interview about equality for women (link below). It’s a pretty quick read, so…

Andromeda

The decision to watch television shows that I once enjoyed is a tough one. On the one hand, I could go back and affirm why I loved a show so much, as was the case with the bad but good Cleopatra 2525 and the delightfully cheesy Mortal Kombat: Conquest. On the other hand, there’s a…