Category Archives: Creative Life

Meta Monday 10: Why Women Should Read SFF

photo by John Le When asked why women should read science fiction and fantasy, Ursula K. LeGuin replied: Because it offers alternatives. What any group that is socially oppressed, or marginalized, or not in control, needs is to know that there are other ways to run a society, that the way this society is being …

November 23, 2009 – 12:42 pm | By Keith | Posted in Advice, Creative Life, Meta Monday, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Meta Monday 8: Artificial Means

photo by andrea The aim of every artist is to arrest motion which is life by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later when a stranger looks at it it moves again since it is life. -William Faulkner

October 5, 2009 – 9:00 am | By Keith | Posted in Advice, Creative Life, Meta Monday, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Fiction Friday 4: I think

photo by epsos “Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days…What is belief – what is faith – if you don’t continue in it after failure?…Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds…But failure…ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes …

September 18, 2009 – 9:19 am | By Keith | Posted in Advice, Creative Life, Fiction Friday, Writing | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)