by Jim Stitzel | Dec 20, 2005 | Writing
It’s always a little bit frightening (read ‘scary’, ‘nerve-wracking’) to “discover”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/index.php/archives/60#comments you are being read, and then that you are being “taken at least somewhat...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 4, 2005 | Writing
Writing is a lot of work. It is a discipline, an exercise of the will. In order to write well, one has to write often. And it is this word ‘often’ that requires the discipline. There are few things that I like to do with such great frequency as...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 2, 2005 | Writing
Continuing the “vein”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/index.php/archives/24 of thought that “Mr. Porcupine”:http://ionfish.wordpress.com/ started “a couple of days ago”:http://ionfish.wordpress.com/2005/10/30/i-hate-the-word-blog,...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 30, 2005 | Writing, Technology
Over the last few years, I’ve surfed a lot of weblogs, and I’ve discovered that there are well-designed blogs aplenty and poorly designed blogs even more aplenty. The good ones make me smile and inspire to hack my own code to create something just as nice....
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 29, 2005 | Writing
It’s interesting the places from which I get new ideas for writing fiction. Just about everything in daily life serves as a notion for at least a _piece_ of a storyline. I just had another really cool idea today for a book, set in a very unique environment, that...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 8, 2005 | Writing
The master potter worked the wheel with his foot, furiously pumping the pedal and spinning the table as he molded and shaped the block of dark clay. He expert hands worked with practiced skill, dipping repeatedly into the bowl of water at his side as he kept the clay...
