Category — Non-Fiction

There is a peculiar phenomenon which occurs during fiction writing. It has to do with character building. Although there’s probably some technical term for it, I’d prefer to focus on observations of the experience in this post.

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Living Introverted: Learning to Embrace the Quiet Life Without Guilt

by Lee Ann Lambert
ISBN: 978-1441464057, $13.95US

A Book Review by Cathrene Gehue

Understanding introversion probably seems like an impossible task for most people, including introverts who haven’t fully embraced their way of being. Media does its best to perpetuate negative myths and misconceptions regarding introversion, and it doesn’t help that extroverts make up a majority of the world population.

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[SinglePic not found]When one of Sean’s paintings was accepted into a juried group show, he declared it was time we went on a road trip. Destination: Hudson, New York. Home of antique furniture, art, and the Limner Gallery, where the Emerging Artists 2009 Group Exhibition launched on March 7, 2009 and for three weeks “Things That Should Not Be Inside Eggs: All the Things we Love to Hate to Love” is being promoted.

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The writing of Ule the Unfurled has slown down. Unfortunately, working a semi-full time temp job, along with further development of House of Scratch, takes time, which leaves me with an hour or two in the evenings to write, study writing, research and develop plot, characters and ideas. 

Although it would be nice to work a little faster, that will come with practice and persistance. The most difficult part about learning discipline is doing something regardless how awful you might feel or how much you want to sleep. Just so you know, I’m getting much better at the discipline. No matter how busy it gets in life, I’m sitting down more frequently at the computer in the evenings, even if all I get out from my muse is a paragraph or two.

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