Read, and above all reread. When you read, you get the great pleasure of discovering what happened. When you reread, you get the great pleasure of knowing where the author’s going and seeing how he goes about getting there – and that’s learning creative writing.
– Shelby Foote
Month: May 2018
haiku 387
Memorial Day
shaky old soldiers
report for duty
Quotable 269
If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe 1 book, maybe 3 poems. Writers write from empathy.
– Nikki Giovanni
haiku 386
feline maître d’
moves off restaurant steps
to let us in
Quotable 268
A writer is someone who pays attention to the world – a writer is a professional observer.
– Susan Sontag
haiku 385
sunset –
geese form
lowercase v
Quotable 267
Seek out writing advice, but don’t follow it blindly; experiment. Discover for yourself what’s best for your writing.
– Victoria Strauss
haiku 384
sunset
shimmers
on flooded fields
Author’s Note: Let’s Try This Again
This week marks a hopeful return to regular posting at Catsignal. At minimum, there will be a new haiku and a new Quotable each Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. I hope also to post weekly about something happening in the writing world, an interesting piece someone else has written, or something I’ve been thinking about concerning writing. I hope you’ll join me again.
Pen to Paper: #Cockygate
Writers and other creative folks will want to keep an eye on a trademark controversy that exploded recently.
Romance author Feelina Hopkins has trademarked the word “cocky” and is telling other romance writers who have that word in the titles of their books to change their titles – even if those titles predate her own. Needless to say, this has caused an uproar in the romance world, and it’s going to be a cautionary tale for everyone else no matter how it shakes out.
Romance author and retired attorney Kevin Kneupper (Twitter) has filed a challenge (Dropbox) to Hopkins’ trademark with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He says it could take up to 18 months for the issue to be settled.