Writing and Other Passions of Andy W. Taylor
I can’t believe the A to Z Challenge is coming to an end. It’s been an interesting experience and I want to thank everyone who took the time to read some of my entries and a big thanks to those that took time to comment. Zombies seem to be everywhere these days (no not literally,…
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they’re here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly I’m not half the man I used to be There’s a shadow hanging over me Oh, yesterday came suddenly Yesterday – Beatles When I was a kid, our grade 8 class choose…
I’ve been a day behind almost the entire week, so I apologize in advance for the double post today, but I want to try to get caught up before calling it a night. I can’t quite put my finger when I first fell in love with maps. It may have been an excessive amount of…
Writing can be very isolating and solitary experience, so its no surprise that writers tend to seek out kindred spirits. I’ve been very fortunate to be involved in a number of writing groups over the years. Each group has taught me so much about myself and about my writing. Writing groups have given me opportunities…
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions. ~Sidney Sheldon It’s always a challenge to create believable villains as a counterpoint to your protagonist. Villains can’t be over the top, moustache twisting, maniacal laughing, psychopaths without justifying how the character got there. Or can…
Once associated with falsetto signing Tiny Tim and his Tiptoe Through the Tulips , the ukulele has been quietly making the rounds as the hipster instrument du jour in recent years. It’s relatively easy to learn (or so I am told), its relatively inexpensive to pick up, and the fact that its more portable than…
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future. ~ Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller Band I’ve always been fascinated about time as a human construct since I was a kid. Like gravity, time is a unseen force, yet its influence on us informs every waking minute of our lives. We plan our…
Satire (n) –1) the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2) a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn derision or ridicule. At an early age, long before I could tie my shoes or count…
I wanted to post a witty or sage quote about relationships and friendship, but none that I looked up seemed to encapsulate everything I wanted to say about the subject. Relationships are individual social contracts, negotiated between people often without any spoken agreement. We tend to associate with people that in some way complement our…
Who doesn’t love a good quote. Whether it be a line of dialogue from you favourite movie, some memorable nugget of wisdom passed down through the ages by some sage philosopher or politician, or perhaps even an expression your mother is fond of repeating. Quotes can trigger memories, be a shared inside joke, or give…