Hello you. Yesterday was supposedly Blue Monday, the saddest day of the year. I don't know if I was sad, but I sure have been lazy. I cannot get it together to be productive. How about you? The biggest effort I have put forth this year (besides a few submissions) was to participate in a challenge on Facebook to post nature photographs for seven days and to nominate others to do so too (like a chain letter). Posting my photos gave me something to do and I have really dug … [Read more...]
Creativity and coloring
Greetings. Hope your first week in the new year went splendidly. I haven't gotten much accomplished but I have been having fun. No doubt there are downsides to being so hyper-connected to the Internet and our phones. For instance, we often don't spend time in the moment. We're distracted. And it's been said we're losing the art of conversation. But I think that in a way this connectivity has driven creativity. Whether you're creating a meme or snappy Tweet or shopping … [Read more...]
News on Fiffer, Kirk, Rodley Submission info for Clutching at Straws, Silver Birch, Prime Number
How's 2016 treating you so far? Maybe this news and info will be useful. Tom Fiffer who has contributed a number of essays to this site has a new book, Why It Can't Work: Detaching from Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love. He is Senior Editor, Ethics, for The Good Men Project, which you should check out--it's "The conversation no one is having." If reading the thought-provoking stuff there inspires you to write about an issue, recently the site had … [Read more...]
Resolution
Resolution I’m going to pink therapy. Later, I’ll see about red care. I’m going to trim all my ego’s hangnails and perfume that space above the soft palate, just behind my uvula. I’m going to have all the hackles on my spine aligned and I’ve made an appointment to have each problem plucked from that very last nerve. And just temporarily, to see whether I’d like it, I’m having my synapses dyed a pleasant color, robin’s egg or eggplant. And just … [Read more...]
Year-end news: Boyle, Meno, Levine, Somlo, Cleary, Newman
Hey there. Hope your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus was wonderful. The end of the year always brings out the "best of" lists. Solace in So Many Words contributors made a few of these T. C. Boyle’s novel The Harder They Come was named the best novel (700 pages or shorter) by Newsweek. It was also named one of the best books of the year by The Express, by the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. Also this year, T. C. Boyle served as guest editor for The … [Read more...]
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