Thursday, March 21, 2013

Writing News and High Wire Walking

Here are a few writing notes and two fun videos I thought you all might enjoy... 

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Author and former literary agent, Nathan Bransford, is planning to self publish a guide to writing a novel. He's going to blog about the self publishing process along the way. I can't wait to read both the guide and the posts!

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Here's another wonderful Robin LaFevers post, The Play's the Thing, from over at Writer UnBoxed. It's all about the need for play in our writing. She includes some excellent examples of what she does, like making collages and writing travel journals in a character's voice.

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About a month ago, Nik Wallenda did a high wire walk over downtown Sarasota. He was about 200 feet up, walking on a wire the width of a nickel , with wind gusts of about 25-30 MPH. No net. No tether. My husband went to watch - along with about 10,000 other people! 

But, for all of us who weren't there, check out the following two videos.The first one shows what the walk looked like from the audience. The second one shows what it looked like from Nik's point of view! He had cameras on the pole he carried. Plus, you can hear the conversation between Nik and his father and team as Nik walks.



6 comments:

  1. Alex - I hear you! I've seen Nik and his family perform in a smaller venue, and even that was amazing and terrifying at the same time.

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  2. OMG as someone with a fear of heights - this freaks me out LOL

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  3. OE - I don't have a fear of heights necessarily but it still freaks me out, esp when you hear the wind gusts.

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  4. I couldn't watch it--makes my stomach do squirelly things just looking at the still pics. :-)

    P.S. LOVE that Hermione quote--and what you shared. I was the same way about school--and now I wonder what was so all-fire important about a couple grades? Guess it was practice for getting myself worked up about a couple thousand words. :-)

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  5. Cathy - I hear you about the grades/word count. :)

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