Who’s Telling Your Story?
When I create a story, it usually comes to me the way it wants to be told. I don’t really think about point of view. By the time I have it settled in my mind and ready to write, my hero shouts “I want out of this box!” or a narrator says “Rhonda stepped off […]
Just For Fun Friday, 01/24/2014
Last Tuesday I blogged about found poems, and I promised to share my favorite. I was reading an article about The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck that quoted this passage. I thought, “You know, that would make a great poem.” So I worked with it. The only thing I did was to create the line […]
Finding Poetry
My friend Pat Laster http://www.patlaster.com/ recently commented about found poems. In a nutshell, found poems are those little surprises you unearth while reading books, articles, essays, or other works. The words, or just a phrase or two, leap at you as being particularly crafted or full of imagery or feeling, or could be rife with rhythm […]
Just For Fun Friday 01/17/2014
Singing the Blues. Do you fight the blues and the depression when things are tough? Try to ignore them and hope they’ll will go away if you don’t acknowledge them? Well-meaning friends remind us God doesn’t give us more than we can handle (and don’t you wish he didn’t have so much faith in […]
Sharpening the Saw
I went to a workshop a few years ago when the instructor talked about ‘sharpening the saw’. She said that woodcutters often take an afternoon a week just to work on their tools, justifying the time spent with the time saved. You see, it’s much quicker to cut a log with a clean saw with sharp […]
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