Considering I’ll be spending the next 36 hours editing a short story of mine, today’s prompt – courtesy of Thewritelife.com – is not a prompt.
Hope you gentlemen and ladies out there find it useful – or just fun.
Enjoy!
Two for Egypt
I’m on an Egyptian roll.
It’s nothing planned, really, but right now here on my nightstand I have two “Egyptian” books, two thick paperbacks that will keep me company for the next few weeks.
And both books are somewhat anomalous. Continue reading
Old but excellent piece from the Huffington Post
10 Ways to Help Your Favorite Author
Buy me a coffee?
Yes, there’s a Buy Me a Coffee button in my sidebar.
It’s been there a few days, and it looks like this…
Should you click it, you’ll be offered the opportunity of… well, as you can guess, buying me a coffee – or more than one, should you feel like – through PayPal.
And since I don’t drink coffee, I might use those money to, say, buy a domain for Karavansara, or a better template; or I might employ that cash to promote online my ebooks, or buy cover art for my ebooks, or to buy gifts for my long-suffering editors… you get the idea.
Now, I was told so many times that putting donation buttons, Amazon product links and Amazon shops and other commercial links on a blog is in poor taste… Continue reading
Great post by Alex White.
Be an artisan.
Companions on the Road: Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki (2)
And after the documentary, the dramatized movie.
There is a moment, ninety minutes in Ronning & Sanberg’s 2012 movie Kon-Tiki, in which the camera backs away from the raft, lost in the middle of the pacific, and climbs up through the clouds and the atmosphere, catches a glimpse of the sun beyond the curve of the planet, pans across the Milky Way, catches the moon hanging in space and then plunges back towards the ocean and the Kon-Tiki.
It’s a perfect synthesis, to me, of what the Kon-Tiki expedition meant to those men that lived it – and a lot of us, in the years that followed. Continue reading
New & Overdue
I’ve been pretty absent these last few weeks.
Because of various familiar mishaps I had to give less time to my blogs.
The little time I had I devoted to my writing.
And also, I was unable to complete two of the MOOCs I enrolled in earlier this year.
But here’s the good news, sort of: now that the situation stabilized, it’s too damn hot (44°C) to do anything but stare at a screen while enjoying the cold stream from the fan… so why not go back and complete what I started?
I hate leaving matters unfinished.
Which also means I’ll have to write a 1000-words non-genre story… by tomorrow night.
And – as I was getting in gear to pick-up my courses again and see the end of them… well, you know how it happens.
I stumbled upon a big list of very attractive summer courses and I decided that, as soon as the backlog has been removed, I’ll get two more courses – one in academical/non-fiction writing, and one in editing.
Because it’s hot as hell hereabouts, but that’s no excuse to have an idle mind.
Or something.
Now I just need a few hundred liters of ice-cold tea.
Karavansara 