FeedingMyGoldfish

@lifeof katie Some of my favorites are:
– Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
– anything by Eleanor H. Porter
– (probably) anything by Lynn Austin…I’ve read a few of her books and liked them a lot, but I can’t speak for every single one…yet B-)

@mariposa I love An Old Fashioned Girl!!!

You know you’re a writer when you’re getting the oil changed and decide to stay in the car when they give you the option of staying or going inside…because you can listen to the mechanics working and, therefore, be able to write that character better even though you will never, ever, *ever* be a mechanic because cars are confusing.

You also…[Read more]

@mariposa Hello, hello! The Middle Ages dinosaur story sounds so cool!!! I would totally be raising a dinosaur if they were still living. *cries because there are no more dinosaurs* I had forgotten about this until just now, but I was going to write a book about a Depression-era preteen boy who ends up working on a kind of dinosaur ranch.…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper what @kate-flournoy said! 😛 Projection/volume should come mainly from the abdominal muscles and not from the throat muscles. Throat muscles=yelling, abs/diaphragm=louder and clearer notes. Throat muscles are for pitch and vibrato, in my experience.

@dragon-snapper First, breath control! Both high notes and low notes need the support of your diaphragm. Lie down on the floor, on your back, and this will allow to you to get an idea of how proper breathing feels. When you breathe with your belly, instead of your chest only, you are able to control tone and projection much more. Second,…[Read more]

@graciegirl Thank you!!! I’m glad you liked the blog. Instagram really is awesome for short pieces like my poetry, but it does present some logistical issues with longer things. :/ For me, I just figure that if a poem doesn’t fit well in an image for IG, then it’ll be a book-exclusive when I get around to publishing.…[Read more]

@graciegirl Good questions! Here’s what my experience has told me:

1. I think a blog is a great way to create a writing routine…IF you set up a schedule and stick to it. I have a blog for my poetry…well, technically, I have an Instagram account that feeds into my website…and my goal is to post daily. That schedule was working really…[Read more]

1. I think a blog is a great way to create a writing routine…IF you set up a schedule and stick to it. I have a blog for my poetry…well, technically, I have an Instagram account that feeds into my website…and my goal is to post daily. That schedule was working really well for me until I had a lot of craziness going on with the last few…[Read more]

@clairec *also raises hand* I love using my opera voice, especially singing opera pop (yay non-Italian…sometimes) like Josh Groban, Il Divo, Il Volo, Chris Mann… All those. Oh, Sarah Brightman! Yeah… 😛

@theliterarycrusader Have I ever mentioned this side of me? XD

@emma-flournoy I want to learn all the fiddling styles…Irish, English, Texas swing, Cajun, Spanish, etc. Basically I just love folk music, period. 😛 The crunching sound is a result of a softer bow, as well as really digging into the strings close(ish) to the frog. Another fun thing to try when playing quicker tunes is holding the bow about…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I totally misspelled your name. Oops. *sheepish grin* I will sing pretty much anything as well; my taste in music ranges from admirably tasteful and cultured to embarrassingly okay with on-trend pop. 😛 I draw the line if it’s a song with one annoying phrase repeated over and over, or one with enough percussion to totally hide…[Read more]

@kate-flourney *raises hand and hops around with a grin* I LOVE singing, and my mom was a vocal/piano pedagogy major in college, so she’s given me some training here and there. Mainly, she taught me breath control and enunciation. I’ve practiced ornamentation on my own. (Is that what you call it in singing? That’s what you call the little…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper I think multiple POVs work best if they are contained in their own chapter, as you said. It also reads better when there’s a clear transition at the beginning of each chapter or some similar indication of the switch between characters. Dialogue tags or plain ol’ transitional phrases work well. One concern with switching person,…[Read more]

@f5a8c3e92 Very true. I’ve never taken the time to learn much about the functions for each type, but that is a good point…they do differ for the types.

@f5a8c3e92 I’m an INFJ, but I used to lean more towards a T and get borderline results. I still have a very strong logical side, though, and sometimes it’s at odds with my emotional side. 😛