Tag: Writing Life

Author J.A. Carter-Winward, Personal, Socio-cultural, Socio-political, Writers, Writing Community, Writing in Blood, Writing Life, Writing Literary Fiction, Writing Process

Millennial-Megaphones and the Din

J.A. Carter-Winward

A creative non-fiction, or creatively fictionalized something, about writing in the Tech Age - by J.A. Carter-Winward (CC) What do you do when you feel as though you have something important to say, and no one's around to hear it? What if what you want to share feels like a kind of message, and it… Continue reading Millennial-Megaphones and the Din

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Writing with the Write Stuff

J.A. Carter-Winward

It’s a question the big-time interviewers ask writers all the time, usually rockstar-writers: “So where did the idea for (insert newest NYT best-selling book title HERE) come from, and why write about it now?” These writers have whatever the answer is down to a tagline: “Well, Oprah, I went to Alaska in 1988 and there… Continue reading Writing with the Write Stuff

Author J.A. Carter-Winward, Character Development, Cliches, Tropes, and Just...No., Contraries and Contrasts, Literary Fiction, Word Power, Writers, Writing, Writing Community, Writing in Blood, Writing Life, Writing Literary Fiction, Writing Process

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: Love Writing, Writing Love

J.A. Carter-Winward

(Cue harp music…) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… One, two, three, four, five… Wait, that isn’t how the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning goes, is it? In fact, she doesn’t say a single number, nor spell one out.  The reason for that is numbers fail to capture all the nuances… Continue reading LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA: Love Writing, Writing Love

Archetypes, Symbolism, Metaphor, Motif, Author J.A. Carter-Winward, Cliches, Tropes, and Just...No., Compassion and Empathy, Contraries and Contrasts, deconstruction, Human Nature, the Psyche, Life, Life and Death, Light and Dark, Personal, Poets, Psychology, Religion and other weirdness, The Word, Word Power, Writers, Writing, Writing in Blood, Writing Life, Writing Process

Blood Trumps Stone – Art in the Time of COVID-19

J.A. Carter-Winward

  So here we are. And art matters even less, doesn’t it? If only all the artists had gone to med school instead, we’d have enough doctors to go around. We’d have enough toilet paper to go around. We’d have enough water, enough cleansers, enough food, enough, enough, ENOUGH. We have enough, though, don’t we?… Continue reading Blood Trumps Stone – Art in the Time of COVID-19

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Lingual Neutrality

J.A. Carter-Winward

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but… …but. Why is it that in an age where “sticks and stones” in the Binary Landscape of the Ether hurt as much as the names being hurled? Is it because words and names do indeed matter? The problem — and you can give me push-back if you… Continue reading Lingual Neutrality