Category Archives: Too XYZ
Launch Party Fun: A Prologue
I wanted to mention that tomorrow evening I will be attending a launch party for the FiND iT FREDERiCK Magazine website. Food, drink, mingling, speeches. I know what you are thinking. It’s the least Ty-like thing you could possibly imagine. And while that may not be 100% accurate, I would not blame any of my …
Writer’s Sex or Writer’s Love?
Today over on her blog Comma N’ Sentence, my friend and professional writer Laryssa Wirstiuk writes of the importance of being honest with oneself as a writer. Of the need for writers to be, as much as is possible, objective when it comes to reading their own works, and subsequently revising same. While she concedes …
Sculpting Relationships
I’ve been thinking lately about relationships. To be more specific, personal relationships. (As opposed to professional relationships in this case.) How easily we can sometimes allow them to become stale. Or how often we fool ourselves into thinking a good initial rapport with someone is the same as a strong relationship with them. How, when …
Existential Savings Time
This weekend Daylight Savings time takes effect for the season. Such a strange concept. Probably outdated by now for its original purpose, (helping farmers, or something) but very much a profound symbol of perception and our power to change same on a massive scale. Think about it. You tell a whole nation, (with a few …
A Million of Your Own Words
There is an old observation in the writing world, based on no science at all. It is often said that you don’t start to become a truly good writer until you have written at least one million words. And they don’t mean just any words either, but words into which you have put specific, concerted …
