Category Archives: Writing
Moderated Anonymity
If you have ever left a comment here on this blog or over on Always Off Book, you are aware of two things. The first being that I moderate comments, and the second is that I allow anonymous comments. Neither concept is popular throughout the blogosphere. Some even prefer a blog that allows no comments …
Cross Post from Always Off Book: Happy Birthday Shakespeare
This is a first for me, but I am cross posting, or at least cross referencing my latest Always Off Book post here on Too XYZ. I am doing so because I am excited to be a part of a week long blogosphere celebration of William Shakespeare’s birthday. I am quite proud of this post, …
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 …
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 …
Ty Unglebower 