A Way with Words

#paraprosdokian

 "Where there's a will, I want to be in it."

And the Plot Thickens...

                        Plotting away...

Misfits

#write #creativity #misfits #reinvention

What an elegant conceptualization of a misfit this is.

[Writer Lidia Yuknavitch] starts to speak directly to her fellow misfits in the room. “There’s a myth in most cultures about following your dreams. It’s called the ‘hero’s journey.’ I prefer another myth to the side of that, or underneath it maybe. It’s called the ‘misfit’s myth,’” she says. “You may not know this yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself, endlessly. That’s your beauty.”“You can be a drunk. You can be an abuse survivor. You can be an ex-con. You can be a homeless person,” she says. “You can lose all your money or your job or your husband or your wife or, the worst thing of all, a child. You can even lose your marbles.”“You can be standing dead center in the middle all of your failure,” she says, “and still I’m only here to tell you: you are so beautiful and your story deserves to be heard. Because you, you rare and phenomenal misfit– you new species — are the only one in the room who can tell the story the way only you would.”

--http://blog.ted.com/lidia-yuknavitch-tells-her-story-at-ted2016/

Telling the Truth

#Fiction #Truth1 #Truth2 #Truth3 #Truth4

Rules on Truth:

1. Always tell the truth (at least most of the time).
2. Tell the whole truth (more or less).
3. Tell nothing but the truth, with a few embellishments, of course.
4. But...

A Web Poet

A beautiful haiku.
We stumble head first
Into another Season
the leaves watch us fall.
--Tyler Knott Gregson  has become well-known on Instagram and Tumblr.

[There is] a new generation of young, digitally astute poets whose loyal online followings have helped catapult them onto the best-seller lists, where poetry books are scarce. These amateur poets are not winning literary awards, and most have never been in a graduate writing workshop.

...their appeal lies in the unpolished flavor of their verses, which often read as if they were ripped from the pages of a diary. Their poems are reaching hundreds of thousands of readers, attracting the attention of literary agents, editors and publishers, and overturning poetry’s longstanding reputation as a lofty art form with limited popular appeal.

--Alexandra Alter, NYT 11Nov15

http://tinyurl.com/WebPoetsSociety

Curiouser and Curiouser in Translation

#wordnerd #polyglot #bats

In the October 29, 2015, Wall Street Journal there is an article by Edward Rothstein titled "Curiouser and Curiouser in Translation." The article especially interested me because "Alice in a World of Wonderlands" is on my Very Short List of books that I have most loved and that have most influenced me.

If I must choose a favorite from the translations cited, I award my coveted Curiouser and Curiouser Translation  Prize to:

Twinkle, twinkle little bat!

How I wonder where your're at!

The rendition of the translation into Slovenian reads:

Along the lake

Near Mt. Triglav

A pot drifts...

I think Lewis Carroll would have appreciated this curious translation.

And we wonder why there are rifts between nations caused by misunderstanding.

Author PR

‪#‎AuthorPR‬ ‪#‎BookPromo‬ #Halloween


I think I should start a list of tips for Author and Book Promotion. If it seems to work well, I can then share the words of wisdom.

• Rule #1. Never, ever publish a selfie.

Batwoman, ready for the trick-or-treaters.

An indignant seven-year-old insisted I could not be Batwoman.

"No, no! Not Batwoman. You have to be Batman."

But he accepted my politically incorrect Almond Joy candy bar anyway.