Happy 2012

I wish you a wonderful new year filled with abundance, joy, and treasured moments. May 2012 be your best year yet!

Not totally Unique

Hey Folks,

Will and Traci have a great idea! But look guys, why don’t we all try this;

I have a feeling it may work for some of you guys as well as it works for me. Though, I’m afraid that some may find it boring…..lol.

When I’m working on any dialogue of my stories, I always read them line-by-line addition to that, I read them out loudly, imagine you’re in the shoes  of your main character in that scene, caught between the rock and a hard place…... I think, this is one way you would be able to identify a non sparkling dialogue because your mind will obviously pick it up.

You can revise and modify your dialogue as you go along and it’s extremely helpful to have a good sense of what leads to that dialogue before the character says it to the other.

Be honest to yourself, don’t be afraid of deletion. Change dialogues in your scenes that are not compelling or you feel they’re abrupt. If you find your dialogues interesting, the readers will as well enjoy them like you did while writing them.

I also suggest that idea Will and Traci proposed. The guys at DUCTAC are fabulously awesome. 

Now on the back of the wind

Well; I've gone a little overboard on the books last month but it was a stellar month and I like to support fellow authors by reading their works.

I'm reviewing the paperback edition of this book. I was sure of what to expect from the Now on the back of the wind, having heard the author read two poems from the book; at the poetry workshop. It's a terrific compendium of poetry all written by frank.

I wonder whether you guys have come across any of franks’ poetry work. There truly clever poems on a wide range of subjects in his book. Sincerely, it’s the first time I have read poetry to such a depth but I adored his poetry collection. It's cute and clever. Well and when I spoke to Frank – I mention it to him, especially my favorite poems in his main stream collection.

Click here to buy his book;

I loved this quote from the moment he said it.

“Don't let your memories be greater than your goals” Jacob Uys

Workshop Review

Dear Frank,


You were so articulate and wonderful last evening. The workshop reminds me of how awesome you are, and (again) how amazing poetry is. Thanks a lot to those who attended, and I loved every minute of it!

Write out for a little fun!

I had a lot of talk about suitable places for writing with a friend, and I pointed it out to him that for me it doesn’t matter where I ‘am. But what matters might be what I’m writing about. It was exciting to see which place better than the other, usually on weekends I write at any star bucks or any other coffee shop.

This time, we didn’t only go to swim at the beach, but also we both managed to get words written before sunset!

I love experimenting new things!

I don’t mind to write with other people around.

It was actually a good thing, because while we were writing it was extremely interesting looking at the wide-sweeping view of the sea. I’m repeatedly surprised that, I didn’t spend a lot of time staring at the sea……lol….. though it was an inspiring beauty.

So I have a question for you;

 

1. Where do you write?

Meet and write

Yesterday happened to be another  interesting evening at  Pullman hotel. Thanks to you all who spared that little time from your busy schedules to come and attend the meet up.

It’s always interesting to hear how other writers go about their writing.

Hope you don’t miss out on the next one and appreciation to Nancy & Will for choosing the location.