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Writing Rule #6: Resist Stereotypes, In Real Life and in Your Writing

Stereotypes are bad… stereotypes are wrong.  I don’t really fit any stereotype.  This should be a no-brainer.  This isn’t just about not offending anyone, it is about making very real and believable characters.

Stereotypical Characters are two dimensional and dull. Take a black man he is young and stylish who loves Jazz.  Its class, it has become a stereotype.  You expect him to be from a well to…

Author Review: Libba Brey

I have had the pleasure of discovering this witty and remarkable artist purely because one of her books was on a list for me to read for work as I am a youth services Librarian assistant.  I picked up Going Bovine, and laughed my way though this young man’s struggle to live his life.  I did not read her again til much later about a year later, when I picked up Beauty Queensand I did not realize…

Snap shots of a relationship centered around a one word theme… I have lots of these from Fan Fiction.  I will be sharing them here… But changing from fandom to original.

Theme 1: Rain

As she and I walked down the road toward the playground at the end of her road we were silent. This did nothing to ease my apprehension about what I was even doing here. I mean, I hadn’t even… I sighed and looked…

Writing Rule #4: Poetry does NOT have to rhyme. Poetry does NOT have to rhyme

After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman

After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship: Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,Toward that whirling…

While It is Fresh on my mind: The Fault In Our Stars By John Green

I didn’t want to read this book.  I was reticent of reading a book about dying children as I am a parent I just didn’t want to see that. I was adamant about not reading it.  and I was also this way about watching the movie and refused to do so citing that I only like to watch things that won’t weigh heavily on my soul.  Lets keep it fast and light shall we?

So needless to say as an avid reader,…

While It is Fresh on my mind: The Fault In Our Stars By John Green

I didn’t want to read this book.  I was reticent of reading a book about dying children as I am a parent I just didn’t want to see that. I was adamant about not reading it.  and I was also this way about watching the movie and refused to do so citing that I only like to watch things that won’t weigh heavily on my soul.  Lets keep it fast and light shall we?

So needless to say as an avid reader,…

I saw her at a coffee shop on campus. She was so hot I had wished for the first time in my life that it weren’t spring. It was a cold day, unusual for May, but here was a freakish cold snap sweeping through the northeast. I hate the cold, it traps me, and keeps me from my true form.  My true self.

I’d come to the coffee shop to sulk about it. The cold. My enemy.  Then she walked in. There aren’t…