J.D Wiley Spotlight Sessions

I'm so pleased to introduce a new writer who I've discovered in another blogger's blog. His name is J.D Wiley and he's scored himself a wicked blog stance in his own right!

Recently, I wrote a Flash Fiction titled 'The Sounds of Silence' about the future of the computers, the world we're currently living and how our lives have turned out. And J.D Wiley asked in the comments if he could use the first 100 words or so as a tempter on his blog; then link it back to mine for the people on his blog to read mine. I said yes! And now, he's brought more traffic to my Flash Fiction blog than before.

The J.D. Wiley: Come for the Action, Stay for the Antics blog is an interesting site. I've only been here a few times to suss it out, but once I've read a few items on here, I found it's well worth staying for a good hour to see what else it here. I love how he's worked the pages and the articles available to us all.

I thought to thank J.D. Wiley here as this is where my writing and books take place. I hope to see him in My Reading List soon. Otherwise, take the time to read the tempter to 'The Sounds of Silence' and then follow the link to my Flash Fiction blog on his site. Until my next post, happy reading! 

A Little Poetry

I've been writing poetry lately, and reading it as well. So, I thought to collect a few blogs some of you might be interested in here:

Tuesday Poem

Poems and Poetics

The two above are blogs where people have written their hearts and souls out on the screen for everyone to read, love and enjoy. And I've read a few of the poems before posting them here. They're lovely.

The next one is about how and why people write poetry. It goes into the intricacies of that particular way of expressing ourselves and gives us a better understanding of poets - from a few points of view. 

The Music In It 

I know I've done poetry blogs before, but just listing a tonne of them here... but this time, it's about quality, instead of quantity. I hope you've all enjoyed the few I've found here. Happy reading.

The Top 100!

Blogs are blogs, right? Wrong. There's some great writing and book blogs out there; and now I've found a list of the top 100 book and writing blogs on Facebook.

The top 100  writing blogs is really something to sink your teeth into! Seeing I'm a writer, I thought to jump onto this link to see if 'Terrible Minds' is on there - and it made it to #15! Yay! I'm so happy it made it so high up on the list!

Well, I hope you enjoy perusing this list as much as I did. Until my next post, happy reading - and writing.

Terrible Minds Make for Great Reading

Being a writer is a great thing.  Sometimes.  Yeah, it can be frustrating to no end when you want to write everything down and yet you don't have enough time, enough fingers, a faster brain or know exactly how to say what you want to say in the precisely the right way.  And yet, there are times, when you get yourself in just the right spot, at the right time of the day or night, in the zone, gleaming the cube and in the right mind-set to have your books take you where you want to be.

This is when your creative mind and muse play along well.  They are like two kids in a schoolyard who sometimes get along well if the conditions are right; but not all the time.  One of them is good for you, while the other can be bad for you.  And figuring out which is which is part of the game.  I still don't know which is which and I'm almost 40 years old; and yet I still love playing the games of creativity with them.

But I found a blog today where the creator pulls no punches, tells it as it is and will give any writer - no matter who you are - a good kick in the butt about your writing.  He uses the blunt, down-to-earth kind of language all writers love to see but their family cringe at; and yes, I must warn you all now, there's some of what he calls 'naughty words' involved... but I'm tellin' ya, it's worth it.

Chuck Wendig is well worth a look at.  I've subscribed to his blog on Wordpress.  And if you're a writer who's claiming they have Writer's Block (but really you can't be bothered writing... you know who you are, stop hiding behind your cup of coffee there), this is the guy for you to read.  Until my next post, happy reading.