Wilson’s Words and Pictures

My friend Karen Swim asks, “What are you doing with your days?” 

Good question. 

My response: Taking a blogging break.   I don’t know for how long.  Probably for two to three weeks. 

Don’t worry about me.  I have some projects that need laser like focus and blogging and blah blahing keep me too frazzled to apply this focus. 

I enjoy communing with all of you and I will be by to visit you when I can. 

I was recently up in Northern Michigan getting pictures of fall color, fishermen, and yes, more barns. 

 

And because I have that damn J thing going on with the Myers Briggs thing I just had to post today.  The little voice kept saying wait on it wait on it.  Who really cares?  Apparently my anal sense of puntuality does.

I’ll probably get around to it tomorrow.

Talk with you soon.  E

PS Oh and check out my RSS number since my last post.  It was up to 120.  Now it’s 108.  Hmmm.  I still haven’t quite figured this number thing out yet but I’m I’ll leave it up because now my curiousity is really piqued.

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I know some of my blogging friends will be participating in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) starting in November. 

I just did the math.  You will be writing 6.66 pages a day.   That’s 1666.5 words a day.  I know you all can do it and I wish you the best of luck.  I’ll be rooting for you.  Yes, afterwards you can have a nice, tall, cold one. 

Maybe two or three.

No, I won’t be partipating this year because I have a novel to finish this month.  One that’s been around for a few years.  And while I planned to come to this post smirking, I realize I can’t.  Actually I have about as much time as all you NaNoWriMo writers. I have to get around 100 pages down to be done and over with it at the end of October.   And at around 15 days that’s about 6.66 pages a day.  So I’m going to rush through it because it needs to get done. 

The good thing about NaNoWriMo is you don’t have time for blocks.  You don’t have time for anything except getting your happy little fingers tapping on the keyboard.  You won’t have time for writer’s block because you will be blazing through it all.  Oh wait -  

There is one block that could create a wall.  A wall that either your characters will scale to reach estatic heights or it will stop them dead in their tracks. Frozen.  Or celibate.  Which is okay if your writing about monks.  But even monks have fantasies - or they just skirt the issue all together. 

I’m talking sex scenes. 

Now before you go thinking what’s she on about here?  That’s exactly it. What are you going to do when your characters want to get it on.  Because, quite frankly, sometimes your characters will take hold of your novel and run away with.  And that’s what you want them to do.  So give them the freedom. 

Sex scenes are the absolute hardest things to write.  Well. That’s why if you participate in the NaNoWriMo you won’t have to think about it.  Just throw your skirt over your head and your pants out the window and get on with it. 

Create some vivid images and seduction scenes.  Work your way up to it.  Or get right into it.  Either way you’ll learn something from it.  Natalie Goldberg talks about a writing workshop she attended where the teacher told the participants to write about their first sexual experience.  One women wrote down her first one.  Then the next one…and the next - long into the night.  Continue Reading »

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I’ve been eagerly waiting the release of this ebook for some time.  Why?  Because I knew it would be good.  And if you have read Hunter Nuttal’s post on Introverts and Extroverts you know what I mean - this guy is damn good! 

 

 

I say this because I know a thing or two about psychology -at least a shelf full of books regarding.  And when I read this post I knew he was on to something.  He could explain the differences, and the subtleties and solutions to getting along with extroverts and introverts in the simplest of terms.  Better than most psyche professors, mind you. 

You know how it is when you find a writer you like. 

So while the extrovert introvert post was the appetizer to the main course, we can now have a full fledge pig out! 

Hunter distills complex information about the Myers Briggs into an essence we can all understand.  He explains things in such a way that makes sense and isn’t filled with too much theoretical rhethoric - boring rhetoric that slows things down.  You won’t find it here.  Not only does Hunter walk you through the tests that identify what your Myers Brigg type is, but he also discusses type dynamics, or in other words, why are you so weird and I’m so normal?

We spend our lifetimes trying to figure this out.  And we go through all kinds of programs to get it. 

This little volume speaks volumes. 

You have at your hands, your fingertips, all kinds of info that may help you relate to that irritating someone.  And they you.  Because it goes both ways.  Like Carl Jung said, “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

Let us get to know one another.  Let us realize there is no good or bad types. 

Transpersonal psychologist, Stanislav Grof says, “The main obstacle we face as a species is found in the present evolutionary level of our consciousness.”

Yes, let us leap forward for we are on the dawn of a whole new way of relating to one another.  Continue Reading »

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