There’s a book that has sat on my shelf for months. Not lined up neatly with the rest, spine facing out, but on the lip of the shelf so that its cover will tempt me with promises of an orgasmic read. The book? The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee. I haven’t read anything by Lowachee […]
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Now To Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Life
Starting tomorrow, I will be largely away from the internet. That’s right, folks: we’re moving. Finally. We’ve been in process (slow, slow process) all October while we wait for the last little things (which turn out to be not so little) to be finished. There will be photos. Eventually. Internet may still take another month. […]
Ode To My Brain
One more awesome thing about Creative Hours: I reach for writing before I even notice that it’s 8pm. See? I can be trained. So this post is about my brain. Specifically, my subconscious. Why? Because it’s freaking AMAZING. You have to be damned talented to write well in a very limited space. Some of the […]
Words Of Fire
Do you ever how those ideas that grab you by the neck and turn your life upside-down? That permeate everything you think, or sleep, or eat, or breathe? I have a story burning to get out. It doesn’t want to wait. It hasn’t even told me what it is. They never understand the need to […]
Wish Fulfillment
Holy crap! I’ve officially reached 1000 views, here. How should we celebrate? Weigh in via comments! One of the biggest perks for me as a writer is wish fulfillment. Seriously. I mean, we all have those awkward, you’re-a-horrible-human-being-but-I-can’t-say-that moments. Those times when someone deserves a verbal royal smack-down, at the very least. That person probably […]
Fair Season
That’s right folks; it’s fair season. Students are returning to classrooms, and summer is heading out with a bang. Literally, when you add fireworks. From now through Halloween, nearly every weekend has some fair or festival, somewhere in the state. One of these years, I’ll get to see the giant pumpkin boat races. But my […]
Judging Covers
Face it: we all judge books by their covers. It’s survival. How else do we choose between all the books in the world? (So much to read! So little time!) Book covers are important. We’ve all been told over and over that they’re not, and that’s a lie. A writer probably started it. A traditionally […]
When I Write…
…I will drink if I am thirsty or eat if I am hungry. However, that requires me to be enough aware of my body to know if I need food and enough in reality to remember long enough to do something about it. This isn’t a problem if I’m procrastinating, but my husband has been […]
How Do We Do What We Do?
No, I’m serious. How do we do it? How do we put pen to paper or fingers to keys and turn all these images in our head into words? Then how do we turn these words into a cohesive piece? We all probably ask these questions at some point. The only answer I’ve yet found […]
Rejection Sucks
Don’t like rejection? Congratulations! You’re human. That more than I can say for some people around here. Rejection hurts. I know; I just received one. Unfortunately, it’s a part of life. The pain of it tells us we’re alive, or some crap like that. Writers, performers, and other artists, I think, more conscious of the […]
Melissa Burkart 