Today a house in my neighborhood was used as a live test for local fire crews. It is not often (as in never) that you know when a house is going to burn, and can enjoy the destruction in a guilt-free way. The Highlands Fire District has been planing this since July and went to [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Does School Kill Creativity?
This TED talk by Ken Robinson from 2006 is about creativity, how to nurture it and what our school system does to it. Insightful. Very Funny [ted id=66] Some great quotes from the talk: “If you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original.” “We stigmatize mistakes.” “We are [...]
Sampling Books with Kindle for PC
I just downloaded Kindle for PC, and am reading the sample chapters from Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. This is going to change the way (or change back to the pre-internet way) I shop for books. If there is a Kindle version of a book I think I might want to buy, I will be [...]
How Bad Do You Want It?
After 17 years, 138 rejections and 870,000 words Brad Torgersen finally made his first pro fiction sale. I guess he wanted it bad, I guess you gotta want it bad. Check out his post for more details. Think he had to do all that writing? (See my last post with my thoughts on the whys [...]
The Arts Are a Job Too
I gotta admit it, the arts are like a siren to me. The romance of being an actor (did tons of that in high school), a artist (a video called LightTones), a photographer (here are some recent ones), or a writer just gets me. No, it is not enough to be wildly creative, as I [...]
Hello world!
Hello. If a blogger blogs and no one is there to listen, does the blogger make a sound? A blog deserves a first post, but really, if you are not well known already (which I am not) who is going to read it? But yet, start you must… Hi, my name is Robert McCarter, and [...]
Books and Stories by Robert J. McCarter
Shuffled Off:
A Ghost's Memoir
Available from:
Amazon.com
BarnesAndNoble.com
Smashwords.com
Autographed copies at ShuffledOff.com
