Tag: Inspiration

Questions

A member of one of my writing groups always asked, “What do you want the reader to come away with?”

Normal

My favorite saying is that normal is a setting on your dryer.

Musicality

The Mirriam-Webster site lists musicality as,
“the quality or state of being musical : melodiousness.”

Linear

So often we are told to make things logical. Predictable. Would that be good or bad?

Horror

I’ve made it all the way to my 8th post without making a recommendation. Here be my first…

Fluency

When we ask too much of the reader, they revert to word calling or parsing at best. At worst, they focus so intently on each syllable or phonetic sound that they are taken completely outside the text. Don’t send your reader away!

Exercise

Punctuation, creative ideas, chronological writing, detailed writing, concise writing (paring it down with repeated removal of extraneous words), and other exercises make us a more balanced writer.

Darkness

A piece would be boring and unfulfilling without some sort of chiaroscuro (light vs dark) to bring out the characters, the story line, and our own investment in reading.

Beginning

Sharing your ideas will evolve out of your introspection. Simply having an idea or opinion is not enough to expound to others. What is the point?

OBSERVATIONS #20 – 12.31.24

Change is Coming – Details To Be Announced To the January-June, 2025 Racine Writer-in-Residence Grantee #18 – Congratulations! Best Wishes to our new WIR program coordinator! Formal announcements will be made shortly. In the meantime, Thank You, Nick Ramsey/Art Root coordinator, 2017-2024, for your outstanding leadership and diligence in organizing the program. Nick’s hands on…

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