Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Mind Food
Here's some interesting posts to chew on:
First, this from the
Cosmic Variance blog:
Do you Believe in Magic?And this related link from the NY Times:
Magic?I love the Cosmic Variance blog. Love it. Yes, it's about physics, but this blog is always thought provoking. It's my go-to blog when I need to jump start my brain with a dose of something I never knew before from frighteningly smart people. Poke around, you'll see physicists of gender and color. We've come a long way. Give your mind some thing meaty to think about.
And then this post from
Creating Passionate Users.
The coda to these links is that writing inspiration can (and probably should) be found in the most unexpected places. The Creating Passionate Users post applies to novel writing, even though that's not what it's about.
Fascinating, creative things spring from minds that make unexpected links, and you can't make those creative leaps unless you expose your mind to an array of mental fare.
P.S. I've been working on the synopsis for Scandal. I thought I had to start from scratch, but then I found the file where I was using tips and tricks from the synopsis class I took a while back and waddya know? The heavy lifting is done. I'll be done way sooner than I thought.
P.P.S. Also,
my agent posted
twice about author photos. Is it mere coincidence that she's now reminded me
three times that she needs an updated photo from me? Maybe. But the honest truth is I was sick twice over Christmas, once with a big huge cold sore which meant I was unpresentable for any photos for over 10 days, and then it was New Years and back-to-back weekends of soccer 150 miles away.
Sigh. I gotta find a good photog. fast. Maybe now with no soccer and hardly any school I can set something up on a weekday.
Labels: atuhor photos, crreativity, Scandal, writing
