(image courtesy Pointillist via Creative Commons) F is for Fear. Fear. We all feel it. For this Blogging from A to Z post I was thinking lately about how fear relates to reading and writing. Many years ago during my MFA studies, I read an essay in which the author stated all great writers are motivated by the fear of death, and even those who say they aren’t, really are. While I haven’t tested this hypothesis, I think writers…
(Image Creative Commons via Photopin) E is for El Cheapo* This Blogging from A to Z post is for all those writers out there. For many years I had the good fortune to belong to a writing critique group led by the late Phyllis Taylor Pianka. Two Thursdays a month we would meet at Phyllis’s house to read our work and partake of delicious dessert. How I miss those nights! And how I miss Phyllis! At one of our…
D is for DogLit Welcome to day 3 of Blogging from A to Z and my theme the Three R’s: Reading, (W)riting, and Research! So, I’ve been noticing that the appearance of dogs in my writing has escalated. My first (unpublished) novel contains no dogs. My second, Moonlight Dancer, features a dog with a minor role. My current work in progress, Poseidon and Me, introduces a service dog with a major role. The novel after that, Please Take Me (still…
Day three of Blogging from A to Z and going strong! C is for Circle Dance. What’s that? you ask. The Circle Dance, or Ganggang sullae, is a 5,000 year old Korean harvest dance that women perform under the moonlight. They would dance under the brightest moon of the year in hopes of securing a good harvest. (image: public domain via wikicommons) This photo of a Circle Dance was taken in Jindo in 1890. I was so excited to find this…
Welcome to Day 2 of Blogging from A to Z! Pull up a chair for Blogging from A to Z in which I and other bloggers publish posts beginning with successive letters of the alphabet. Partly because I am a newbie to this A to Z blogging experience and partly because I’m a planner, I tried to map out all my letters ahead of time to minimize the craziness. Over a period of several weeks, most of the…
(image courtesy flikr creative commons via photopin) A is for Adoption Welcome to my first day of Blogging A to Z! I hope you enjoy my theme–The Three R’s: Reading, (W)riting, and Research! We’ll begin with the letter…I don’t know…A? I recently figured out (okay, I’m a slow learner) that many of the books I read, all of the books I am in the process of writing, and the one book I published, Moonlight Dancer, relate to adoption–human or canine–in…
(A Dame’s School courtesy of flickr via photopin) So, I’m going to do something new and radical this April. I’m going to participate in Blogging A to Z. That means I will join with a bunch of other bloggers and create a blog post every day in April with Sundays off for good (or bad) behavior. Twenty-six days, twenty-six letters. Check out the cool Blogging A to Z website here. Maybe you’d like to join in. Please do. Cruise…