Writers have a way of describing people, places and things — an observant point of view — that gives readers a new way of looking at those aforementioned nouns. Authors such as Dr. Seuss was a genius at bending words and phrases. All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you’ll … Continue reading
Click on the link below to see how one of my fellow bloggers/friends, Chitra Yamada responded to my questions. Brigitte’s Questions. Chika (as I call her) answered my challenge questions from my earlier blog — thanks dear friend! Visit and bookmark her blog here….very interesting and fascinating stuff. Her prose is elegant, sure and powerful — the … Continue reading
Since I’ve been actively writing and submitting work, I’m more aware of getting out of doing what I’ve always done and that’s mainly writing in first person point of view (POV). That mainly comes from decades of journaling so it’s easiest for me. That’s what my 120 pages plus of my novel is — so … Continue reading
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet said: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Translation: Names aren’t so important, a rose would still smell as sweet even if it were called something else. Oh, but I beg to differ. Names are very important, especially … Continue reading
The picture accompanying this blog is from a “poem” that I wrote over ten years ago. I purchased an inexpensive plague from a craft store and wrote the passage on a piece of parchment paper. I then burned the edges of the paper, glued it on the wooden plague and shellacked it. I’ve carried this … Continue reading