Category Archives: Wisdom

The lovely and talented Mrs Wright says this: Today’s post is in reponse to a reader’s request. Come by and comment on your experiences with writing from real life. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/285281.html Excerpt: First, I will start by saying that if there … Continue reading →

The lovely and talented Mrs Wright asks all and sundry to come by and share any opinions on the similarities and differences between the literary likes of men and women. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/280676.html Excerpt: When I was in college, some male friends … Continue reading →

The beautiful and talented Mrs Wright continues her alphabetical explanation of the Great Ideas of Western Literature: In Today’s Post, I have finally returned to the subject of writing about the great ideas. Today’s idea: Aristocracy. Come by and share … Continue reading →

The lovely and talented wife continues her post on Mortimer Adler’s list of the 101 ‘Great Ideas’. We continue with ‘Animals.’ This is a repost of her previous article. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/276571.html Excerpt: Nowadays, the shelves of the children’s and young adult … Continue reading →

Today’s article on writing about Angels. Excerpt: The first Great Idea listed by Mortimer Adler happens to be Angels. So, today, I thought I would write about writing about angels.Some things are intrinsically hard to write about. Angels may be … Continue reading →

Read it while it is hot! http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/274528.html Excerpt: A great book is a book you love. Perhaps, it is a book that changed your life. Perhaps, it is one you want to read again and again. Perhaps, it is one … Continue reading →

My lovely and talented wife is restarting her weekly post about writing and the writing world. Today, she is posted her “best of” her previous posts on Writing Tips for anyone who has not seen them. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/274031.html Two Strings: Two … Continue reading →

After a long break the beautiful and talented Mrs Wright takes a brief look at 1, 2, and 3-D characters http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/261281.html An excerpt: One-Dimensional Characters- are just that. They have one-dimension to them. The girl with red hair. The angry … Continue reading →

This week’s Wright’s Writing Corner features guest blogging editor Mason Lavin covers the dos and don’ts of submitting your work. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/247302.html Excerpt: Do NOT do the following: Read my edits and then delete all of them, sending back a “the … Continue reading →

The beautiful and talented Mrs Wright has returned to Wright’s Writing Corner and the series of articles about writing about the 102 Great Ideas. This one is about animals: http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/244758.html Excerpt: Nowadays, the shelves of the children’s and young adult … Continue reading →

Nice guest post on Self-Publishing with lots of references at the end: http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/219904.html

Oops. Forgot to post a link to my lovely and talented wife’s weekly essay on writing. Better late than never: http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/217683.html Some time ago, I promised to begin a series of articles about writing about the Great Ideas. The first … Continue reading →

My beautiful and talented wife is asked every would be writer who wants to hear the scoop, straight from the horse’s mouth as it were, to drop by her website and leave a kind comment. Today, we have a real … Continue reading →

A post praising and discussing Beta Readers! Excerpt: Writers write. We also read. In particular, we read stuff written by other writers, and we ask them to read our stuff. This is an invaluable process without which the flow of … Continue reading →

Today’s post is a guest blog on how to name characters by Danielle Ackley-McPhail. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/211285.html

An article from Catholic Review which makes some salient points about modern materialism, or, as the author calls it, neuromania and Darwinitis. I reprint the whole thing here in case the link might fail, and also to archive it. The … Continue reading →

After a lengthy hiatus, Wright’s Writing Corner returns. Today, we have a guest blog by Rose Mccauley, who shares with us the moment when everything changed for her…when she went from being a writer who waited to an author with … Continue reading →

Yes, some days writing is like this. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/199884.html

A short piece this week on the Unexpected Assumptions of readers. Excerpt: When I was young and arrogant, I used to criticize authors for not handling “obvious” issues in their books-issues which, in retrospect, were usually me jumping to some … Continue reading →