It feels a bit big to tackle entirely, but perhaps I could plan to visit a certain number of the UNESCO Heritage sites and blog about that.
There are currently 911. I’ve been to 21.
Or I could pick a country and visit all the sites there:
Italy (45 sites)
Spain (42)
China (40)
France (35)
Germany (33)
Mexico (31)
UK (28)
India (28)
Russia (24)
US [...]
One good thing about my job: All the really wonderful people I get to talk to and interview for the stories and pieces I write.
Another good thing: When I get to see photos of the people I’m writing about, which is usually a shot of them doing something they love to do. It brings a [...]
Oh how I wish. This guy has the best ideas and writes about them.
He spent a week at the airport and wrote about it. He helped create the School of Life. He’s an observer of status, work, love.
What’s not to like about the guy? My goal: to be the American (and female) version of this [...]
The plot of movie I saw recently included a code hidden in the first letters of the first words of part of a book.
What if I take the first words of all the paragraphs in all of the chapters of one of my favorite books and, if they don’t happen to spell out the answer [...]
My first example of a fabulous conversation overheard:
Fifty-something man with dark brown skin, battered dark blue ski jacket with a faded orange logo on the back, dark watch cap, and way too many other clothes for a sunny June day. He was riding an aged light blue three-speed bike down the sidewalk on Boylston Street, [...]
Perhaps I’ll write a poem or short story each week, using only words, phrases, and stories I overhear that week.
In the past few weeks I overheard two separate conversations (with different actors) about the recently served prison time of one of the interlocutors. I wish I’d written them down because each was chilling and funny [...]
My writing class keeps beating out of me my lust for modifiers.
You may know it…that tiny, little, hardly noticeable yet endearing, charming, and ultimately captivating habit I seem to have gotten myself into.
What would I do without the eagle-eyed, keen observational skills of this group of dedicated, funny, fun, and decidedly passionate scribblers?
Thank goodness [...]
Perhaps I should spend my time creating a novel only using the sentences and phrases received in spam email.
You have to admit there is a certain poetry to the language. Not good poetry, but definitely a distinctive style and rhythm.
The first line of this epic will be:
I wanna share with you my method to make [...]
Think about all the things you don’t know when you’re traveling.
Right now I am trying to figure out what type of wood is use in the traditional townhouses of the Gion section of Kyoto. This fact is not vital to my life, merely a detail that would add color to a piece I’m writing.
If I [...]
Word auto-corrected my mistyping of consistency to constancy.
Thus inspiring an internal debate on which word to use. They are synonyms. But constancy seemed to add a moral gravitas to the piece and was almost a clever play on words given what I was writing about.
It started me wondering about other synonyms that in many ways [...]