by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
How to write when you’ve got nothing to say I was never prolific. I used to spend hours staring at a blank screen bleeding words like blood from a stone which I would end up deleting the next day. Why? Because I made the mistake of thinking that writing was all...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
http://www.aliventures.com/8-writing-secrets/ A few years ago, I’d look at published writers and think that they were somehow different from me. After all, their books were gripping and fluent – unlike my stumbling attempts at first drafts. Their blogs had hundreds or...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Creating Cover Art: Down &...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Does playfulness spur creativity? Ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson of the University of Cambridge wants to know why playfulness is so connected to creativity in the realms of science, music, and business. Working with behavioral biologist Daniel Nettle, he asked over...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html Where I’m From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
New Blog post: How to Title Every Book You Ever Write You’ve decided on a life of letters. You’ve got that manuscript you workshopped getting your MFA, an agent, and a publisher. Congratulations! You’re well on your way to being a critical darling. Now all you need is...
