http://bjwcreations.com/blog A journey into the wilderness of authorhood Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:09:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A post for Crystal* Stranger Than Fiction What if you were a character in one of your novels?  Or someone else's?  This is what Harold Crick begins to believe after he starts hearing the voice of a narrator.  This movie is so interesting on so many levels that it's almost a must-see ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/161 Yeah, I know.  I tease you into thinking that I'm going to start keeping up with the blog and then I disappear again.  Well, I'm back, and I'll try to do better. I've been working quite a bit at getting the photography business up and running, as well as writing when ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/154 I've been on an extended hiatus.  Not intentionally, mind you, but life has been conspiring, conspiring I say, to make the creative process as difficult as humanly possible.  Stress had begun to build as long ago as September, and by the end of October it seemed that everything had fallen ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/153 Afore I be forgettin', it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so, go forth and hug a Pirate.  Just be careful not to get stuck on his hook. http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/152 So here's my conundrum: everybody likes Mallory.  People think Mallory should get more of my attention.  Apparently, Mallory needs a book of his own. Why is this an issue?  Well, because Mallory wasn't intended to be a story.  He was invented so that Ian wouldn't pick his nose.  If Mallory is ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/151 The winning entry for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has been announced. Gerald began--but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/150 Yeah, yeah.  It's way past time.  I know. First of all, all that stuff in the comments?  Didn't happen. Second of all, I very nearly sat down to write this while I was in Dayton but I figured awing you all with my ability to compose it on the fly would have ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/149 So I was catching up with some blog friends and saw that Crystal Inman had a rating of PG-13 on her blog.  Out of curiosity, I ran the utility here.  Guess what?  I'm "R" rated.  Huh?  I think more than warning off your kids, I need to warn my Mum. http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/147 Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. ~ John Godfrey Saxe, 1869 I know that I promised you Mallory, and please trust that though this post is again political in nature it is not going to be a trend, but recent events ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/146 especially since it appears that I'm not updating regularly.  Well, just so you know, there is another Mallory installment in the works, but I've found myself involved in a lot of photography related tasks lately. First, I finally had the big wedding portfolio shoot.  I had two models down from Ft. ... http://bjwcreations.com/blog/archives/145