From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Keeping the juices flowing with word exercises

June 14, 2008

All the members of my writing group are working on different projects and topics, with many different speeds and styles.  We’re very different writers, but all share the common affliction of sometimes just having the creative well run dry.  To combat that we started choosing a random word for each session for everyone to work [...]

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Comma Chameleon

June 6, 2008

Yes, the title is reminiscent of the only song by Culture Club that I can stand, but it fits the topic so….thank you Boy George? Part of the beauty and frustration of the English language is that it is constantly changing. Not only does this relate to morphemes and phonemes but it applies to punctuation [...]

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The Old Chuck Palahniuk’s Rules For Short Stories

June 4, 2008

I was discussing with some friends last week whether Chuck Palahniuk was the new Kurt Vonnegut.  Statements like that always strike me as a bit of a cop-out, but I lack a better way to describe Mr. Palahniuk’s writing to people. The discussion did remind me of Vonnegut’s rules for short stories, which I quite [...]

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