Insights From a Flea-Market Find
Do you like flea markets? Saturdays are often spent with my daughter, exploring them. It’s our ‘getting away from it all’ hobby. I look for frames (mirrors, art-work, photo frames, etc.) and spend lots of time sorting through books. And I browse. Some things just look interesting, or bring back a childhood memory (I had […]
Just For Fun Friday 01/31/2014
Who writes this stuff? On Facebook and in e-mails we are inundated with those illustrated posts that originated with posters, post-cards, greeting cards, and other things – often with poignant, pithy, or pertinent quotations on them. I love those things! But – who writes this stuff? Often the quotations are from books, the bible, or […]
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 […]
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