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Joseph LMS Green
A good friend and unparalleled talent. Nothing more to say.
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What Writers Can Learn From the A-Team
Over the past week or so I’ve been playing email tag with a very good friend from college who is at what I think is a very pivotal point in her writing life. She’s trying to get back on the writing wagon, but her muse seems to be asleep at the wheel. Likely as not, it’s because she works all day teaching and by the time she gets home her muse feels beaten within an inch of her life. Teaching can do that some days.
Regardless, because she’s a trooper, she’s doing the Poem-A-Day challenge for the month of April and, while she started strong, it’s eleven days into the maelstrom now and she admitted that she’s beginning to flag. The writing is slow and painful now and, when it finally does come, it’s a train wreck so horrifying she suffers PTSD the next day and has a hard time boarding the writing train again. We’ve all been there, and know how this can snowball into a writing slump.
She asked me for some thoughts on how to get past this. Well, here’s something I’ve learned about writing, and I learned it from the A-Team: failure IS an option Dive deeper…
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MG: The Shenanigans of Infinity
The Shenanigans of Infinity
For those of you who didn’t know, Monday, March 14 was National Pi Day. The one day of the year set aside to celebrate the most awesome of irrational numbers, the number that runs on Energizer batteries and keeps going and going and going… Oh, Pi, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679…
(Yeah, you probably saw that one coming, didn’t you?)
But seriously, how does one celebrate National Pi Day? What behavior is apropos for an infinitely large, non-repeating irrational number? Dive deeper…
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MG: Inception-y At McDonald’s
Modern Geek Chronicles:
Getting All “Inception-y”
“Don’t go getting all Inception-y back there, just drop the damned fries!”
The above statement was overheard at a McDonald’s in the fair city of Wilmington, NC. I have to admit, I’m not quite sure what it means, but it sounds damned serious. Part of me thinks I understand what it means to “get all Inception-y.” In my head, it’s akin to “getting all Matrix-y” which is, itself, akin to “getting all Blade Runner-y.” Jump back a hundred years and the saying was probably “getting all Metropolis-y.” Step back about 1500 years and it’s “don’t go getting all Justinian-y.” And on and on and on.
I wonder what the hell could have been going on in that McDonald’s that was “Inception-y.” I picture a pair of pimple-faced teenagers scuffling in the belly of a spinning industrial freezer as processed meat patties tumbled like hockey pucks Dive deeper…
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