Posted by: allanmayer on: August 27, 2008
If you haven’t stumbled upon it yet I would highly recommend ‘Stumbleupon.’ All you have to do is Google it, download the tool bar and fill in the questionnaire about your interests, and when you click ‘Stumble’ you will be presented with a page geared to what you are into. I have subjects such as [...]
Posted by: allanmayer on: August 22, 2008
Alcohol- the cause and solution of all our problems, as Homer Simpson once said. There is a strange relationship between alcohol and writing, a stereotype which goes something like this: the tortured author, poet, or hack, sitting in his garret over his typewriter (wordprocessor doesn’t quite fit this ‘romantic’ image) churning out volumes of original [...]
Posted by: allanmayer on: August 19, 2008
A few blogs ago I had a bit of a rant about what I considered to be duff advice about how to create characters in novels, and wrote a skit called ‘The DaDisney Code,’ in an attempt to spread an internet ruimour that Dan Brown based his characters on the seven dwarves. Maybe it was [...]
