Category: General Thoughts & Updates

December 21, 2016

Today’s Post Delayed Further Due to Ow

So… this evening, I kind of closed a garage door on 3 fingers of my right hand (my write hand… get it? [Sorry]). Nothing’s majorly damaged, but I haven’t felt like typing too much since then (Sorry?). I’ll try to catch up tomorrow. -Em

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December 13, 2016

You Might Be a Writer If…

Do you qualify as a writer? Read my list and find out (Ok, ok. You already know. Read it for giggles!). Ready? You might be a writer if…   10. You love to read. You’re definitely a bibliophile. In fact, you love a good story – whether it’s written into a book, transformed into a movie, performed on stage, or simply...

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December 8, 2016

Very Different Takes on Fairy Folklore

Maybe it’s all the commercials with not-so-bright Christmas elves (sometimes annoyingly so), but lately, I’ve had faeries on the brain. And, being me, that makes me think of how they’re used in books and how different authors have very different takes on fairy folklore. Have you ever listed all the books you’ve read that used old fairy folklore as inspiration? Well, don’t...

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November 11, 2016

Happy Veterans Day Poem from twytte!

Happy Veterans Day poem from twytte. Today, we salute all who served.

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November 10, 2016

So Long as Ignorance and Misery Remain on Earth: A Victor Hugo Quote

This Victor Hugo quote from the preface of Les Miserables is one of my favorite quotes of all time. The meaning, word choices, and rhythm – the way it builds – it has a power that sticks with you. It’s stuck with me since the very first time I read it. Here is the full text in case it was too hard to read...

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November 3, 2016

The First Annual twytte NaNoWriMo Challenge

Hi! Em T. Wytte here, affectionately called twytte by… well, mostly by me. Anyway, I would like to formally invite you to the first annual twytte NaNoWriMo Challenge! Dun dun dunnnnn! The twytte NaNoWriMo Challenge Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will NOT be to write an entire novel in a month. Nope. This is not your typical...

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October 27, 2016

Do You Ever Hate Writing?

Do you ever hate writing? Sometimes, when we get to a writing exercise, a student will groan, “Ugh, I hate writing!” And while Dorothy Parker was being witty when she said it (when wasn’t she being witty?), the students who say this are deadly serious. They’re teenagers (so I’ll admit there’s probably some hyperbole involved), but at least some of them honestly and...

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October 13, 2016

Build a Neighborhood Lending Library

“What is this thing?” you may ask. As well you should. “It looks like a birdhouse (a really big birdhouse), but there are books inside! I want to know more!” That was my exact response when I saw this while out for a walk. Then, I saw the little plaque on the front: LittleFreeLibrary.org Take a Book • Return a Book How awesome...

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September 30, 2016

Food as a Writing Prompt

You can’t use food as a writing prompt! Or can you? Hmmm… Food can be used for worldbuilding. It’s inspired the readers to recreate the dishes from books and movies (Did you check out the recipes from Studio Ghibli and Avatar: the Last Airbender or from the Harry Potter series and LOTR?). Heck, if people can find Jesus on a potato chip, then why can’t we find a scene...

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September 27, 2016

Thought-provoking Writing

For a quote about how writing is thought-provoking, this is pretty darn thought-provoking, which, I guess, proves his point. But we expect poetry to be thought-provoking. We don’t normally think of general fiction as thought-provoking. Oh, sure. Books like Animal Farm and 1984 were written to jar people’s perceptions. But those are classics. The books that people read most of the time, they’re written...

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