Category: literature
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Top 5 Most Frustrating Writing Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) – from Grammarly
“Recently Grammarly asked its social media communities which writing mistakes were the worst kinds of errors.”
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On “The Science of Sleep” by Michel Gondry: a Psychological Critique
This is one of the most polarizing and hauntingly beautiful films I have ever seen. A movie so emotionally packed that audiences promptly fall into one of two camps: the hopeless romantics, absolutely smitten or the average consumer, completely repulsed.
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On the Revolutionary Power of Diverse Thought: Elif Shafak
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in Arabic, Art, Author, Authors, Culture, Globalization, interview, Islam, Istanbul, literature, politics, Thought Provoking, writing“So from populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy. And from isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism and the beauty of diversity.”
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Ten Songs for Winter: For Rich Emotion, Deep Inspiration, and Lucid Dreamin’.
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in Art, literature, memoir, music, NaNoWriMo, networking, nonfiction, poet, Poetry, ten songs, the writers life, top ten, writingYou know how it goes:] the blustery mornings. Watery eyed and minus-7. The frozen pipes and snowed in nights. The red faced wind burns. But look at that, the stars have never been so sharp –outlined in the thin air like diamonds under keen inspection.
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Spontaneous Combustion: #1 ($99 Dollars, Almost Free: Life Coach. Copywriter. Thief)
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in Adventure, Anthropology, Arabic, Archaeology, Art, Author, Authors, Blogging, copywriting, fundraising, life coach, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, love, memoir, networking, nonfiction, Poem, poet, Poetry, publishing, rough draft, spiritual, spontaneous combustion, stream-of-consciousness, success, the writers life, Travel, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, traveler, writingI’m not here to pretend to be some guru or act like I know anymore than you do because, believe me, the older I get, the less I know. Funny how that works when the world is running wild with “twenty-somethings” peddling Nirvana and life-coaching: really just give me $99 and I promise you’ll feel…
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Prologue to a Memoir: A Rough Draft, a Novel, a Working Confesson.
A strange thing happens when you begin to contemplate the end. It’s as if setting such a definitive goal opens the world to endless possibilities: a phone is buzzing,