http://vagabondtrust.com Writers At Home In Migration Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:01:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Writing in the 21st Century appears here every Thursday. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment, or email the author at mromard@gmail.com. This column is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License. I know, I know, you're very busy. You want ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=962 Writing in the 21st Century appears here every Thursday. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment, or email the author at mromard@gmail.com. This column is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License. Small bit of administrivia before we start: I'm shortening ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=957 This is part five of an ongoing series of articles to help you start writing. This series will appear every Thursday. This week I want to talk about making sure that your characters seem like legitimate people. We've all experienced works with characters that are flat or one-dimensional. Those of us ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=951 This is part four of an ongoing series of articles to help you start writing. This series will appear every Thursday. [caption id="attachment_919" align="alignright" width="150" caption="No dialogue for me, I took a vow of silence."][/caption] Eventually your characters are going to have to talk to each other. Well, they usually will, at ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=945 This is part three of an ongoing series of articles to help you start writing. This series will appear every Thursday. [caption id="attachment_919" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Go ahead, describe me!"][/caption] Now that you've started to flesh out the ideas for your story, it's time to focus on your voice. What do I mean by ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=939 This is part two of an ongoing series of articles to help you start writing. This series will appear every Thursday. [caption id="attachment_919" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Write about monks!"][/caption] Last week we ended with you writing down an idea. This week, you're going to start expanding on it. There's an old adage that you've ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=929 This is part one of an ongoing series of articles to help you start writing. This series should appear every Thursday. [caption id="attachment_919" align="alignright" width="150" caption="This could be you!"][/caption]I can't offer you a lot of advice on how to make a career as a writer, except for this: you'll never make ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=913 Copies of the Mind Bloating anniversary revival are now available for FREE pickup at Backstreet Records and Westminster Books. Well, they have been for two weeks now, I just forgot to post a notice. The zine is open for submissions on an ongoing basis. Issue #2 is ... http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=908 Howdy NET! The folks over on feathertale.com (the humour lit. site) have posted my poem If You Turned Into an Alien, How Would I know if You Still Love Me? this past Monday. Please check it out! http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=904 just had a milkshake not one boy came to the yard I must be aging http://vagabondtrust.com/?p=902