Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.
–Gary Ryan Blair ( Mind Munchies: A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
I spent the weekend at Context 22, a science fiction/horror/fantasy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pennwriters’
1 Sep
Writers aren’t old dogs
25 Mar
Thinking outside the traditional writer’s box
There’s a big debate going on over at Pennwriters right now between those who have been published traditionally and those who aren’t about which writers “should” do.
The old guard insists that if you want to write novels you must get them to one of the five big houses, get the publicity machine and promotion. Of [...]
5 Jan
Dancing along the walk
As the children trooped dutifully back to school today, I realized some of my very first posts in this blog were about the return to routine and the comforts inherent therein when your family deals with autism.
That means I’ve been on this blog journey for a year. Unbelievable.
This walkabout has taken me many places, both [...]
5 Oct
Just write it
I’m a lucky writer.
I participate in two writing groups that are very supportive, both at meeting time and after. One is based in a Unitarian church, and the small group is well-meaning and cheerful, though the members aren’t regularly published; it’s mostly people who like to write for themselves. The other is part of the [...]
19 May
Serendipity and blessings
There is no feeling like the one you get when you experience a gathering, be it conference, revival or reunion, where everyone is excited about a topic and all the energy flows in one direction.
Can I get an Amen?
I had expected the Pennwriters shindig this weekend would be exciting; to be surrounded by so many [...]
11 Jan
That’s why they call it work
As a writer friend of mine scolded, “It may be fun to chunk out novel after novel, but until you put in the work to edit, they will never go anywhere!”
So today begins the work on the novel I penned in November, during my first experience at NaNoWriMo. (For anyone who hasn’t done this, I [...]
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