The Room is our generation’s Rocky Horror*. It’s at best a D-List movie with horrible stock footage and acting right out of a CCD production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The writing is Nemesis-worthy. Basically, if The Room was being graded for actual artistic merit, it would beyond fail. However! The Room is a great learning experience. Tommy Wiseau’s “masterpiece”
NESCBWI Conference Recap, Part II
It’s kind of hard not to get good advice when you’re at a conference for three days. Even at the crappiest of conferences, you should be able to take back one nugget of information. Since I’m an avid note-taker, I have pages of information. Unfortunately, I can’t share everything with you. But I can share a few thoughts. After reviewing
Friday Fives: Advice Link Up
Go to Paper Hangover. Go! When I saw this topic last week, I huffed and sighed. There’s no way I received five pieces of advice as an aspiring writer. I normally don’t talk about my craft with people*. Imagine my surprise when I discovered I’ve blogged about this not once but twice in the past year. Read a lot of
What Follow That Bird Taught Me About the Journey to Publication
“If I just keep on going, everything will turn out fine.” – Big Bird, Follow That Bird I loved this movie growing up. Big Bird is sent off to live with the Dodo family in Illinois and far away from Sesame Street, but he doesn’t like it there. He’s homesick. He takes it upon himself to go back to his
Best. Advice. Ever.
Everyone in The Lurkdom has received some form of advice over the years: boring, needless, obvious, or otherwise just stupid. Yours truly isn’t the exception. I’ve heard advice that I could have gone without knowing*. My favorite piece however, I received from an acquaintance in high school. Think about it. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve gotten? * Like