Wild Word Friday! I participate in a bluegrass/country musicgroup. Each Saturday afternoon we meet for a jam session. I play the mandolin and dulcimer and the baglama, which is a Greek stringed instrument. Lest you be too impressed, please understand that I don’t play any of these instruments well. Not at all. My husband plays the…
A few weeks ago my friend Trish asked where I find the words and information for Wild Word Fridays. I’m no expert on words, but I’ve found an abundant number of resources concerning words. In no particular order, I usually find my Wild Words from one or more of these sources: 1. Dictionaries. My office is full…
Wild Word Friday! CHURCH, a wild word? Well sometimes. When I was six years old, my mother told me that I had been mispronouncing the word CHURCH. It was not turch, it was CHURCH and I was old enough to say it correctly. “CHURCH?” I said. “It can’t be CHURCH. Everybody says turch.” “No, Sue…
You’d think, since I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, that I’d be used to ice storms. Not so. Our weather here is usually too cold for ice storms. We get snow. However, last Saturday our April temperatures were too warm for snow and too cold for rain. We had ice. Five electric poles just south…
Wild Word Friday! Do you remember those days when you wiggled and poked and prodded at that loose MILK TOOTH until finally, finally it came out? That night you put it under your pillow, and the next morning the tooth was gone. In its place was a dime or a quarter, depending on the tooth fairy’s mood and pocketbook….
I love to “discover” new authors. I’m currently reading two first novels by new-to-me authors. For our April book, our Reading Group chose Guardians of Hallowed Ground, Gettysburg by Thomas J. Ball. Guardians is an account of a time-travel journey made by a group of modern soldiers to the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. Tom’s research is impeccable and his…
The other day a friend and I were discussing our grandchildren, and she related a cute comment made by her 3-year-old grandson. Since that conversation, I’ve been remembering all the funny things I’ve heard children say, some wise and others silly. One of my favorite “kid sayings” was from one of our DGDs (Darling Granddaughters), when she was about 2 1/2….
Welcome back to YOUR Novel! Let’s talk a bit about scenes. You can’t write a novel without scenes. Scenes are the molecular structure of story and thus of a book. I like literary agent Rachelle Gardner’s take on scenes. “A scene has three necessary elements: a location in time and space; action; and dialogue. Make…
Wild Word Friday! Yes, really, HELEMUTHODOPILATAHA is a word. I think we might agree that it is the wildest wild word we’ve yet featured on our Wild Word Fridays. HELEMUTHODOPILATAHA is one way you would say the number seven if you were speaking in the language of the Wilo people who live in the Amazon basin. Now…
Book Review: OUR WITCHDOCTORS ARE TOO WEAK Authors: Davey and Marie Jank Imagine living for years in an Amazon jungle village that doesn’t have the luxury of running water (except in an alligator-infested river). Home is a wattle-and-daub hut with a mud floor and thatched roof. The people speak a language you don’t know – a language…
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