May
27
Ambulatory Literature
May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Sometimes life feels a lot like fiction. We are overcome by a sort of creative deja vu effect. Usually when this happens to me I consider whether my surreal experience is one of those “that would make a great short story or novel” sort of moments or is just a result of not eating a [...]
May
19
Pixel Poems and Journal Bytes
May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
From the Gadget Lab at Wired comes news of an “app” called Scarab that may finally catch the attentions of quasi-neo-luddites who feel as though eReader technologies are horse flies in their milk. Also, this app may land happily in the journal-starved hands of techno-appreciative word wizards, folks like me who would rather have a [...]
May
13
Supernatural Collective Nouns, & Etc.
May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Let’s say you decide to write your own supernatural thriller. When this happens, you may want to refer to the index of SUPERNATURAL COLLECTIVE NOUNS as you’re deciding which genre of supernatural being you are going to focus on for your five part series and eventual film adaptations. We all know that vampires, zombies and [...]
May
6
Livewires has a crush on LITOPIA podcasts! These brain friendly shows are produced by Litopia Writers Colony, one of the Internet’s oldest communities for writers. They aim to inform, provoke, and occasionally terrify but mostly they want to entertain you! Intelligent entertainment would be a good way to put it: at a time when much [...]