A couple Writer's links to follow today

Okay, the first was posted at Lisa Samson's blog. See the link to her in the sidebar. She posted a link to some very good advice for writers. Check it out here:

http://bkmarcus.com/cache/Vonnegut/style/

By clicking on the name link to the other person who had left a comment for that blog, I ended up at another interesting blog from Kay. Here is a recent entry at her blog:, where she says she isn't a writer but these stories are in her brain, trying to get out:

http://loopdeloops.blogspot.com/2007/08/im-not-even-writer.html

Here is my comment back to her:

When those pesky things start pounding on the walls of your skull, trying to break out like chicks emerging from their eggs, you've gotta be ready for them. If you don't like the idea of a paper nest for them, or a hard drive resting spot, there's always the option of a cassette tape recorder. Speak out the story and let someone be your "secretary" to type out the dictation ...

Stories have a way of choosing their "victim" with intent. Whether to throw awry our own sense of who and what we are and are not, or to wreak havoc on our plans for life, or just to make us stop and look st something from a different angle with a sense of wonder -- I haven't decided.

Enjoy the fact that you are now "chosen." If you can find a copy, try reading Madeleine L'Engle's "Walking on Water: Reflections on Art and Faith." There is a section in there about how a story comes to a person and says "enflesh me." And she likens it to the "Glorious Impossible" -- how Mary said "yes" to the seemingly impossible -- holding God inside her own womb.


Enjoy whatever gifts come your way today! God bless!