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How to Visit Nara’s Nook Virtual Worlds
Nara’s Nook is a place where authors, readers and story characters interact in a virtual simulation. What you will find at Nara’s Nook: A community of folks who love books and storytelling: Writers, readers, musicians and artists join with us in exploring fiction and its future. Reader adventures. Writer resources Book centered activities: Book centered parties, events and community projects to participate in. How do you get there?I created a Virtual Writer’s and Reader’s Colony. It is designed for writers and readers new to virtual worlds. It’s a safe place to learn how to get around. You can meet up with other folks who love books, find a quiet corner…
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Metaverse Muses: The Oracle
A common meme passed from writer to writer is that you can’t wait on inspiration to write. Supposedly, you must plant your butt in the chair and bang out drivel until something useful shows up on the page. I don’t see that either waiting for inspiration or pouring out pages of glop to find the good stuff is terribly efficient. One is a static method of waiting on the muse and the other active. It’s all waiting. Why can’t you just go out and hunt down the inspiration you need? Or, my preferred method, conjure inspiration from pixels. Not all of my muses look the same. I think I have…
Nook’s Not Dead Yet
I’m back at the helm even though officially Nook is still on a summer break. I should have done a post sooner about our break. I just did not have the energy. I think I’m stronger now and it is easier to talk about some things. I’ve gone from two steps back for each step forward, to maintaining and running in place. For those who don’t know I lost my husband a few months ago to an NSAID induced stomach bleed. He had refused narcotic medication to deal with his pain from an accident several years ago and took what he thought to be a safer over alternative. I can’t…