FUN STUFF
I wrote this response to a very funny piece in the Onion about science fiction writers.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46693
Literary writer I.M. Wiser says his latest novel, Words, is the first to be completely without plot. "Literary writers have been working toward this for years," Wiser said, "but have been more successful in obfuscating plot lines than eliminating them altogether. Words is pure language: the reader can enjoy the finely crafted beauty of each sentence without being distracted by any kind of story.Wiser's previous novels, while still lightly plotted, have also been landmark books. His first, An Academic Matter, marked the twenty-thousandth time a literary novelist has limned the trials of a college professor having an affair with one of his students, while his second, Agonies, was the three-hundred thousandth book to examine the tortured emptiness of American family life.
Cool Links (in no particular order)
Shannon Hale's website http://www.squeetus.com/stage/main.html
Includes fun interviews of other authors by one of my favorite authors
Orson Scott Card's website http://www.hatrack.com
Just because it's funny: http://www.peepresearch.org/smoking.html
Just because it's moving: http://www.momscancer.com
Just because I'm a huge fan and his techniques work: http://www.cesarmillaninc.com
Improve your vocabulary, feed the world: http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Gardening Sites
http://davesgarden.com
For great articles on gardening by Lois Tilton see http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/by.php?user=LTilton
http://www.chambleeroses.com
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46693
Literary writer I.M. Wiser says his latest novel, Words, is the first to be completely without plot. "Literary writers have been working toward this for years," Wiser said, "but have been more successful in obfuscating plot lines than eliminating them altogether. Words is pure language: the reader can enjoy the finely crafted beauty of each sentence without being distracted by any kind of story.Wiser's previous novels, while still lightly plotted, have also been landmark books. His first, An Academic Matter, marked the twenty-thousandth time a literary novelist has limned the trials of a college professor having an affair with one of his students, while his second, Agonies, was the three-hundred thousandth book to examine the tortured emptiness of American family life.
Cool Links (in no particular order)
Shannon Hale's website http://www.squeetus.com/stage/main.html
Includes fun interviews of other authors by one of my favorite authors
Orson Scott Card's website http://www.hatrack.com
Just because it's funny: http://www.peepresearch.org/smoking.html
Just because it's moving: http://www.momscancer.com
Just because I'm a huge fan and his techniques work: http://www.cesarmillaninc.com
Improve your vocabulary, feed the world: http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Gardening Sites
http://davesgarden.com
For great articles on gardening by Lois Tilton see http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/by.php?user=LTilton
http://www.chambleeroses.com