http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox Daily Inspiration For You. One. Word. At. A. Time Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:23:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/09/writing-tip-showing-off-and-backing-off/ http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/09/writing-tip-showing-off-and-backing-off/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:23:06 +0000 macinnpj http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/09/writing-tip-showing-off-and-backing-off/ Roy Peter Clark's Special Effects: "When the topic is most serious, understate; when least serious, exaggerate."]]> http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/09/writing-tip-showing-off-and-backing-off/feed/ 0 http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/personality-differences-in-your-characters/ http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/personality-differences-in-your-characters/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:25:19 +0000 macinnpj http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/personality-differences-in-your-characters/ If you write fiction, a challenge your challenge is to give each character its own personality. This is particularly difficult to do on paper, and it takes a careful eye to make men and women believable. This evening, we received news that a friend’s son had been taken to the hospital because of the injury. My [...]]]> http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/personality-differences-in-your-characters/feed/ 0 http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/ebays-literary-oddities/ http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/ebays-literary-oddities/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:04:53 +0000 macinnpj http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/?p=317 Despite new technology threatening to replace the book these literary oddities prove that books are here to stay.]]> http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/ebays-literary-oddities/feed/ 0 http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/tolstoys-lesson-on-how-to-change-the-world/ http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/tolstoys-lesson-on-how-to-change-the-world/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:23:14 +0000 macinnpj http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/?p=315 I've thought back at that moment in my life often, especially during those times when I haven't accomplished anything BIG. As I lurk closer to forty years old, the most important lesson I'm trying to learn is what Tolstoy had already figured out. ]]> http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/tolstoys-lesson-on-how-to-change-the-world/feed/ 0 http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/sleep-a-writers-best-friend/ http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/sleep-a-writers-best-friend/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:22:03 +0000 macinnpj http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/sleep-a-writers-best-friend/ According to the Huffington Post (and other, more scientific sources), sleep can be the best companion a writer can ask for. Instead of editorializing the editorial, why don’t I just send you over to the article. Besides…it’s late and I’m tired. ]]> http://jaymacinnes.com/writingtoolbox/2010/08/sleep-a-writers-best-friend/feed/ 0