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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 9: While the Heat is in You

photo by wes Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. -Henry David Thoreau Stop making excuses and start writing. That idea is fresh and drives you. It is so much easier to resurrect a stale …

November 9, 2009 – 2:43 pm | By Keith | Posted in Advice, Meta Monday, Writing | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

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)