... a city/state of mind
Many writing how-to writers — including one or two who have something worth reading — stand ready to help you pick a cookie-cutter approach to writing. You will receive guidance, for the type of writing (usually non-fiction), the subject (something you understand at depth), the goal (making a profit), and the method (everything from beta [...]
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It is challenging to edit my own writing. I must do battle with a tendency to fall in with the cadence of my prose like a good toy soldier on parade, counting out one, two, three, four … one, two … three, four! I look up from editing to realize that I have been more [...]
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Into each life, a little bit of E.B. White should fall. Chances are, a little will grow to be much more, as your interest pays dividends. White wrote the book (Elements of Style) on the craft of writing, for the 20th century, his fans say, and it is also true that White had a knack [...]
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I do not need to go back in my mind to the Record-Searchlight newsroom, silent witness to my days as a cub reporter. The rooms of the newsroom, the two of them, often are with me without bidding when I sit down and set out to write. The mind, it seems, anchors memories with images. [...]
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Without persons who speak and write, and observe, words — our words — would be dead and gone. I care more about self and other persons, but I also prize words in themselves, like I love my three cats — less than my wife, certainly, but more than many other persons, or things. Without words, [...]
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I’ve been reading a young adult book, Wildwood, by Colin Meloy with fine illustrations by his spouse, Carson Ellis. Meloy is the lead performer of the Portland, Oregon, band called The Decemberists and Wildwood, his first novel, published in 2011, is Book 1 of the Wildwood Chronicles. The publisher is Balzer + Bray, an imprint [...]
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My first five Tweets of the day – @baldyblogger Jon Rieley-Goddard re: within and without … *without* is the culprit w/its two meanings of *outside* and *lack*. As idiom, OK to use. I don’t. 2 hours ago @baldyblogger Jon Rieley-Goddard re: inside and out. Works w/o the ambiguity of idioms (qv) such as *within and [...]
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A web site for writers would look like this, I suppose. Or maybe a web site for writers would resemble a book for readers who have written and who will write again. Repeat offenders. Read all about it at HouseofVerbs.com
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My first three Tweets of the day – @baldyblogger Jon Rieley-Goddard Gary Snyder sez Coyote stomped on Nothing until the World appeared. Surely words stuck to Coyote’s feet, ready to speak. -31 minutes ago @baldyblogger Jon Rieley-Goddard re: language. Each word a poem, each image an anthology. Each speaker a trickster like Coyote – playful, [...]
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I will be giving a reading from my two current book projects at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at the Environmental Cottage of Riverside-Salem UCC/DC, for Wednesdays at the Waters Edge. The details: Our co-pastor Jon Rieley-Goddard will give readings from two book projects that he is working on — a novel titled Grimoire: The [...]
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I am all over the place, in both my virtual and my actual worlds.
I take photographs, I write books, I publish books, and I make boats in my basement.
I preach on Sundays and post the audio to a blog.
I sell used books on Amazon.
This particular web site serves as a portal for all my parts.
A map that I hope is just like the territory.
More on the About page.
Essays from House of Verbs Grimoire – the Bros Grim Breakfast Serial
My first novel is available as a trade paperback, a Nook file, or a Kindle file.
The books is the first volume in the series Grimoire - a Bros Grim Breakfast Serial.
When you sign up for our RSS feed that arrives in your email box, five personal blogs that Jon Rieley-Goddard maintains and posts to are combined in one place.
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The five blogs are --
Buffalonya - a city/state of mind, the portal page
Tourist at Niagara Falls (New York) State Park uses pay-per-view telescope to view Horseshoe Falls.
This is a small version of the photo that the header is cropped from. See the full-size photo.
