Mirka Muse

Musings about the writing life and life in general

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Me and the Blank Page

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Oh, hum. A lament about what to write about....  Another one? For some reason this is not a problem I have struggled with. Truth be tol...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

It’s a Jungle Out There

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Remember the frantic repetition from MGM’s The Wizard of Oz— “Lions and tigers and bears, OH, MY!”—? It’s beginning to resemble my back...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Fail Better

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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett A famous quotation. What in the blasted barn...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

CAT WISDOM

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The French sociological positivist Hippolyte Taine said it perfectly: “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of ca...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

BRAVE BREWING WORLD

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It’s a new lingo. ‘Splain it to me, Lucy~~~* *Quoting from I Love Lucy really dates me. Just the other day I asked a techie how t...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

How Old? I Mean— How-Old.net ?

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In late April Microsoft unveiled a site that for no charge or sign-in will let you upload photos of anyone and have the wizard of facial an...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Say Nay to the Naysayers

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You've  heard all the “ can't -be-done”s to last you a lifetime. Now it’s time to push ‘em back. When I started writing with th...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

You don’t Know What You Don’t Know

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…Until You Know It Would you like to know the future? I mean, if a genie granted you the wish to see your timeline on this earth, would...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Is Twitter for Twits?

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I recently joined Twitter, more out of curiosity, (and a tiny soft suggestion from my agent) and immediately found it overwhelming. It was ...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Empowering in Yiddish

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Every language has a personality, and when I think about Yiddish, I think “self-mocking,” “Ironic,” and “wistful humor.” The last contains ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

It’s Not Only WHAT You Say…

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… But also HOW you say it. Thomas Hardy said that if Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Tax Day Musing

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April fifteen just about here, and all over our great nation folks are slaving away to get numbers in order and pay, or at lease pay homag...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

What Do Children Understand, and When?

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There’s that repeated question adults, and kid-lit writers specifically, often posit: will kids this-or-that age get this? Kids understan...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

PLOT or CHARACTER?

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The old chicken-and-egg debate has a writerly version. Should you start from plot, or from character? My usual answer would be that it ...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

LOGIC versus LOGISTICS

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I have a dear Beta reader whose logical mind helps catch inconsistencies and discontinuities in my stories. Every writer should be so lucky...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Newbery/Dinglebery Syndrome

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A cleverer writer coined this wonderful expression of artistic  bipolar  mood disorder. It struck me as an apt description of what every cr...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Charmed by PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION

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One of the many writerly rules is to avoid the passive voice. I'm  on record as ranting about “rules” and the slavish following of ...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Why Do We Hunger for Sequels?

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The hysterically enthusiastic reaction to the announcement that Harper Lee, the author of the American literary classic To Kill a Mockingbi...
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