capricious
someone said 2023 was the year of visuals & it built a home in my subconscious the new suburbs now I’m watching a holo robot unplug & beat angrily on glass it’s trapped behind instead of watching the show people record on their phone I wonder if they see the resemblance I know […]capricious
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Writing in the Age of Social Media
Daily writing promptWhat is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.View all responses
George R.R. Martin is a man known for many things; being an acclaimed author with a career that spans both genres and decades, running a show and overseeing its script until he feels safe in its production and watching the ensuing conflagration in faint horror from a distance, complex…
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5 Tips for Character Development
If you have found some of your recent characters to be flat, or maybe they just don’t feel as real as they do in your head, here are 5 tips to help your characters become the best versions of themselves!
Give them a few quirks. Characters, like real people, should have little things that make them unique. Everything from a favorite food or color to a superstition or pet peeve. If you can show…
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Happy 10th Blog Anniversary!! 🥳
Hello everyone,
Today marks my 10th blog anniversary of my blog, Kaleidoscopic Kites!
It’s mind-blowing for me to believe that time has flown by so fast and I’ve managed to maintain this blog for years, but I’m really happy I’ve still kept writing here. Additionally, I would like to thank all my followers (new & old) for reading, liking, sharing, and commenting on my posts. It really means the…
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5 Life Hacks for Someone Turning 25!!
At age 25, you already have a few of life’s biggest milestones behind you: the day you took your first steps; your first “words”, your first day at school; graduation… and then comes 25. 25 is the unsung heroes of milestones: the age at which most people have a little more life experience behind them and start feeling like “adults”. (If you don’t, yet, that’s totally fine, too!)
When it comes…
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Hard NOC Life 321: Two Strikes, We're Out
Keith and Britney try to make sense of the confusion surrounding what entertainment journalists and influencers can and can’t do after SAG-AFTRA joined the Writers’ Guild on strike. They also dig into why it’s important for writers and actors to be properly compensated for their labor and announce a hiatus for Hard NOC Life through the rest of…
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Writer's block, Exams, Procrastination and a lot more | Life Update #5
Hiii….!
Okay, so it’s a bit awkward for me to shamelessly just start posting blogs as if nothing happened, after disappearing for a month, that too without informing……..once again!
Now some you will say things like, “it’s fine”, “life comes first”, “it’s okay”, “it’s my blog and I can post whenever I want” to make me feel better but deep down all of us know it’s a sign of being irresponsible. I…
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Are Writers Obliged to Give a Voice to the Voiceless?
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I Prefer 'Gardener' Over 'Pantser'
I’m taking this week to do a final read-through of a client’s manuscript, and then I will get back to working on the prequel to Blood for Honor, The Wild Assault. I have a few things I want to change in the first five chapters, which will probably extend it to six chapters and move the plot forward in a much better way. These kinds of revisions are what ‘plotters’ say make outlining your story to…
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A Witchy Writer's Incantation
A Witchy Writer’s Incantation
Star bright star light set my broom aside
Let me walk upon the clouds, nothing under me
I need no lift, I need not ask for a flying ride
When creativity is my guide, I am true and free. (more…)
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A new Fibonacci poem inspired by the art of a friend.
Fight by Nikola Stanković
I first worked with my friend, the Serbian artist Nikola Stanković, in 2018, when I opened a virtual art gallery, Glinka Gallery, in the virtual world of Second Life where my avatar uses the virtual name, Wolfgang Glinka: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Seaforth/85/198/29
Nikola Stanković’s outstanding paintings formed our first exhibition there, where I was…
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Considering a MFA program? Read this first!
I'm all set to graduate from what I believe to be a stellar MFA program on January 17th. Could there really be something I didn't learn? Would prestigious, world-renown faculty really leave something out?
Recently, I came across an article from Writer’s Digest titled “What They Don’t Teach You in MFA Programs: 5 Rules for Writing Stories That Work” by Chris Mooney, a “Bestselling author and creative writing instructor.” I was obviously intrigued because I’m all set to graduate from what I believe to be a stellar MFA program on January 17th. Could there really be something I didn’t learn? Would…
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Creative Blocks and Creating What You Know
"What do I do when trauma won't let me write?"
"How do I manage triggers while creating?"
These sorts of questions plagued me when I started creating regularly.
It wasn't until I began to accept and work with them that it started to get better.
Blink, Blink, Blink.
There are no words to adequately express the level of frustration that the blinking cursor can inflict when you know what you want to say, but not how you want to say it; especially when the thing you want to say is incredibly close to home. It’s almost mocking, a passive aggressive accusation against your willingness to create if it means being open about the things that…
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Table For One (a writer's life)
Table For One (a writer’s life)
The crisp autumn wind whispers its secrets through the slanted window as her catlike eyes begin to penetrate the screen and to intermingle with her magically woven realms.
Her sparkling dreams begin to unfold as a flower that turns its face to the sun. Her world which she has with loving care created begins to dance before her shining eyes, unveiling itself only to her, who reassures her…
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What I Learned From My Mother (Mother's Day 2022)
What I Learned From My Mother (Mother’s Day 2022)
This is going to perhaps be shocking to read, in all honesty, but I hope you will bear with me. One of my favorite memories of my mother is of the few times that she has lost control of her language (forgive me, Marmee). Now these occurrences have been very few and far between indeed (and very well may be all in my imagination, right, Marmee?), but, as I have grown older, I have come to realize…
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now again and again
Ended up not going to the book thing today. Lindsie wasn’t feeling very well and when I went down to check it out the lineup was all the way around the block and down the next street. I waited in it a bit, but the line wasn’t going very fast. There wasn’t a wind, but it was still cold enough to give me a chill. Since I’ve got a nasty cold creeping up I decided to call it quits. I’ll probably go…
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