Herlaþing

The graying threads of Norsemen lore are woven with a tale, born of the Fates, themselves, and destined to be echoed by each aching tongue of those who carried it with them. In the years that have moved this world from that one, the story has been warped and misused. It has been lost for a season before reappearing again suddenly – pulled from some chasm of tortured histories that have a slithering inclination to be repeated. Although lost it has become, lost it will never stay. For, that very word holds in it a promise – that those things lost will once again be found.

T-time

 

It is not the train. The train is a much bigger and more calculated beast, running from the suburbs, pulling into North and South Station with a heavy energy before going all the way back again. It is not the subway. Subway is a restaurant and there are eleven of them in Boston proper, wedged between crumbling brick and sidewalk debris. It is the “T”, and you can tell an out-of-towner immediately when they refer to it as anything else. The “T”. Not clever and retro like “the tube”. Not posh and preserved like “the metro”. The “T”, and the name exudes everything that is of Boston culture: brusque and simplified, no bullshit.

It is recognizable by a large bold “T” in a scrubby circle of white which breaks through the colorful bits of city around it to direct the skeptical – those searching, and there isn’t anything bullshit about the sign, either. No Hector Guimard blossoms, no Harry Beck roundel; but it’s straight and unambiguous and this is like Boston, too.

Using the T, however, is a different story.

Advice for Women in Publishing

I follow a number of publishers, affiliates, and associations on a multitude of social media platforms. If you are trying to get somewhere in life, this is a very easy step. Social media, whether you’re more traditionalist or not, has an undeniably huge influence on us. It is important to keep yourself up-to-date and this is a painless way to do it.

I was thankful that I took this step when I came across an article today by Alice Meadows. Meadows takes a very important look into the ways in which a gap between genders has impeded success in the publishing industry and, even more importantly, how we as individuals can make mindful choices to close this gap, not only for ourselves, but for our fellow female colleagues.

Maintaining a Love and Commitment to Your Writing

Why do we get stuck as writers? Well, to put it simply, writing is hard. There are bumps and bruises. There are great big roadblocks that erupt in the soft, sweet, creative earth under our feet.

I, myself, am ridiculously guilty of walking away from the craft for days, weeks, months, even (although heartbreakingly-hard to admit) years at a time. As difficult as this is for me to consider, the obvious question arises of “why?” and I am intrigued by my own question because it is hard to fathom why someone who enjoys it so much would abandon it so often.

Employing a Multitude of Techniques for Stronger Writing

So, you just might be a postmodern writer!

One theory about postmodern writing is that once the style began – there was no going back. This theory evolved from the idea that any work created since the birth of postmodernism was inevitably influenced by it and therefore was, in and of itself, postmodern.

Of course, I may be getting ahead of myself. Let us first begin by defining “postmodernism”.

Discovering Your Writing Climate

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a  typewriter and bleed.”

– Ernest Hemingway

What do we do when writing becomes more of a chore for us than an actual source of enjoyment? What do we do when we can’t summon the right words, the right thoughts, the right emotions to draw those precious bits of prose out of us, mold them precisely, and put them against paper?

The problem may not actually be in the fuzzy space between brain and skull – where ideas get caught in the webbing and begin to rot like sugar in the rain. You know what I’m talking about.