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Marks On Paper poetry collection published.

tonydyer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:54:31 +0000

My poetry colection has been published. Should appear on Amazon soon.

Here’s the front cover

You can get it at Lulu

URL http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/marks-on-paper/18717894?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

Wondering Quietly What To Do?

tonydyer — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:39:16 +0000

Nanowrimo has been great. I’ve done little writing but have felt liberated knowing that how I perform is down to me. We react differently to pressure and sometimes ignoring it is the best thing to do. Common placed advice can and often does work. However sometimes there is a need for a different kind of strategy, a different way of thinking. Is that not how we break out of the mold, that prison of convention too often trodden. Is it not better to follow the road less traveled?

NaNoWriMo, will I or won’t I?

tonydyer — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:50:03 +0000

In multiple minds as to whether or not to do nanowrimo this year. I feel that it’s that time in my life to put up or move on. I think I must.

Process or Progress?

tonydyer — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:55:09 +0000

Working from front to back

Top to bottom

Systematic, following the flow

Knowing what to do

Worry about “how to” later

Commit pen to paper

Make the idea manifest

Once it’s there in front of you

It can be improved

Work with something rather than nothing

Whatever you want to do

You can only become better by doing it

Again and again and again

Proper practice

Deep practice

Pushing the boundary

Find the limits of possibility

Try the allegedly impossible

Frameworks and structures

Instead of limiting

Can offer support.

A thought for this evening

tonydyer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:26:02 +0000

It’s high time for high tea

Tummy telling tales on me

Taste buds tantalized by tempting pastries

Tea brewing, masking away

Soon to be devoured in the usual fashion

Why I write? Why do you write?

tonydyer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:03:34 +0000

I can at least attempt to answer the first of these questions.

I write because I can clarify my thinking through the placing of pen on paper. I can express my emotions and remember that I did feel like that. Sometimes I feel so cold towards people that I need my poems to serve to tell me that I’m not that cold and distant. That I’m part of the human family and that I share the universal human condition which is simultaneously frightening and comforting.

The inevitability of death the only certainty we can plan for, the rest is up to serendipity and our own belief in ourselves…

Marks on Paper – A Poetry Collection by William N Dyer – Coming Soon

tonydyer — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:47:56 +0000

My first collection of poetry and my first self-published book, Marks on Paper, will be available as a print publication by the end of September 2011. I’ll put a link up to it on Lulu and Amazon as they become available. I anticipate an Amazon Kindle version sometime in October / November 2011 for those of you who might prefer a ones and zeros version. Might do an ePub version if there is any demand.

I’m getting ahead of myself…

Hint Fiction #20

tonydyer — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:18:03 +0000

They stopped twenty feet from the junction. They waited. Back the next day. They waited.

The next day they were found; dead; bullets in the head.

Hint Fiction #19

tonydyer — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:16:11 +0000

It was a wet and windy night. A farmer must always pay head to the weather. Tomorrow it will be over.

Hint Fiction #18

tonydyer — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:15:29 +0000

He took the pills. A moment’s relief followed. Another four hours for the next fix. Why wait for oblivion?