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Jul. 16th, 2013 10:34 pm1. Cousin posted these writing tools on FACE BOOK and now, I WANT. Am seriously lusting after Scrivener.
And UnStuck looks cool. Am already trying 750 Words - a means of private journaling online. Not sure about it though.
2. Eloisa James is interesting romance writer. From Wiki:
Mary Bly was born in Minnesota in 1962, the daughter of Robert Bly, winner of the American Book Award for poetry, and Carol Bly, a short story author. She was the inspiration for her mother's essay "The Maternity Wing, Madison, Minnesota," which was published in the anthology Imagining Home: Writing From the Midwest.[1] Her godfather, James Wright, wrote a poem especially for her, which he included in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems.[2] Bly has three younger siblings, Bridget, Noah,[1] and Micah.[3]
The Bly family did not own a television, but did own over 5000 books. Robert often read to his children, choosing to expose them to classics such as Beowulf instead of more traditional children's fare.[4] Even at a young age, however, Mary was fascinated with romance. To entertain her siblings during a snowstorm, she built a puppet show, complete with lights, that featured a romance. Several years later, after discovering the romance novels of Georgette Heyer in her local library, Bly convinced her father to allow her to read one romance novel for each classic novel she read.[1]
After graduating from Harvard University, Bly went on to attain an M.Phil. from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Renaissance studies from Yale University. She is a tenured associate professor lecturing on William Shakespeare at Fordham University in New York City. She has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department, as well as head of Fordham's Creative Writing Program.[5][6] In addition to publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press, she has published an academic article on 17th century drama in The Publications of the Modern Language Association, the most prestigious journal for English literary studies.[6]
From Wiki.
Does explain why her novels are a wee bit subversive and sort of remind one of Georgette Heyer. The latest one has a romance between a widow of 32 and a young writer of 27. It's a Regency Romance. The reviewers at Amazon and Good Reads were a tad put off by this novel, it was a wee bit too subversive for them.
Still? Not as interesting a background as Rosemary Rodgers who was married to a Sri Lankan Cricket Player (I think it was Cricket) and supported herself with ground-breaking, subversive, and controversial boddice ripper romance novels in the 1960s and 70s. The woman is still writing and publishing books. Amazing. She's got to be in her 80s by now.
James in stark contrast got published in her 40s. The publication dates are late 1990s and early 21st Century, and she's about five-six years older than I am. (1962).
I don't see myself writing in the genre. Although I could try...I've certainly read enough of them, and a wide variety at that. Most people just stick to one type in a genre (ie. New Adult, Young Adult, Historical, Contemporary, Religious, Boddice Ripper, Chick-Lit). I'm too omnivorous for that. I skip around.
Still hot. Although not as bad as it was in Kansas. 90s is bad. 100s is worse. Having experienced both...it's hard for me to worry too much over this, unlike the rest of the people in my state. NY'ers are weird about the weather. They have a hissy fit if it dips below 20 degrees in the winter, and if it dips above 89 in the summer. Partly because they don't really have a/c or great heaters. Stupid city doesn't know how to handle bad weather.
You'd think after 200 years...they'd figure it out. But nooo.
Weather is admittedly wonky though...my parents living in South Carolina, where it is normally in the 90s and 100s this time of year, are enjoying pleasant spring-like conditions. 70s and low 80s. Meanwhile we're having 80s and low 90s up north. Oh well, they are outside more than I am anyhow.
And UnStuck looks cool. Am already trying 750 Words - a means of private journaling online. Not sure about it though.
2. Eloisa James is interesting romance writer. From Wiki:
Mary Bly was born in Minnesota in 1962, the daughter of Robert Bly, winner of the American Book Award for poetry, and Carol Bly, a short story author. She was the inspiration for her mother's essay "The Maternity Wing, Madison, Minnesota," which was published in the anthology Imagining Home: Writing From the Midwest.[1] Her godfather, James Wright, wrote a poem especially for her, which he included in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems.[2] Bly has three younger siblings, Bridget, Noah,[1] and Micah.[3]
The Bly family did not own a television, but did own over 5000 books. Robert often read to his children, choosing to expose them to classics such as Beowulf instead of more traditional children's fare.[4] Even at a young age, however, Mary was fascinated with romance. To entertain her siblings during a snowstorm, she built a puppet show, complete with lights, that featured a romance. Several years later, after discovering the romance novels of Georgette Heyer in her local library, Bly convinced her father to allow her to read one romance novel for each classic novel she read.[1]
After graduating from Harvard University, Bly went on to attain an M.Phil. from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Renaissance studies from Yale University. She is a tenured associate professor lecturing on William Shakespeare at Fordham University in New York City. She has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department, as well as head of Fordham's Creative Writing Program.[5][6] In addition to publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press, she has published an academic article on 17th century drama in The Publications of the Modern Language Association, the most prestigious journal for English literary studies.[6]
From Wiki.
Does explain why her novels are a wee bit subversive and sort of remind one of Georgette Heyer. The latest one has a romance between a widow of 32 and a young writer of 27. It's a Regency Romance. The reviewers at Amazon and Good Reads were a tad put off by this novel, it was a wee bit too subversive for them.
Still? Not as interesting a background as Rosemary Rodgers who was married to a Sri Lankan Cricket Player (I think it was Cricket) and supported herself with ground-breaking, subversive, and controversial boddice ripper romance novels in the 1960s and 70s. The woman is still writing and publishing books. Amazing. She's got to be in her 80s by now.
James in stark contrast got published in her 40s. The publication dates are late 1990s and early 21st Century, and she's about five-six years older than I am. (1962).
I don't see myself writing in the genre. Although I could try...I've certainly read enough of them, and a wide variety at that. Most people just stick to one type in a genre (ie. New Adult, Young Adult, Historical, Contemporary, Religious, Boddice Ripper, Chick-Lit). I'm too omnivorous for that. I skip around.
Still hot. Although not as bad as it was in Kansas. 90s is bad. 100s is worse. Having experienced both...it's hard for me to worry too much over this, unlike the rest of the people in my state. NY'ers are weird about the weather. They have a hissy fit if it dips below 20 degrees in the winter, and if it dips above 89 in the summer. Partly because they don't really have a/c or great heaters. Stupid city doesn't know how to handle bad weather.
You'd think after 200 years...they'd figure it out. But nooo.
Weather is admittedly wonky though...my parents living in South Carolina, where it is normally in the 90s and 100s this time of year, are enjoying pleasant spring-like conditions. 70s and low 80s. Meanwhile we're having 80s and low 90s up north. Oh well, they are outside more than I am anyhow.