Wild Word Friday! I’m a Christian and so in addition to expressing THANKs to the special people in my life (which definitely includes all of you reading this!) I spend time each day THANKing God. I have been blessed in so many ways and all of you are an important part of those blessings. Next…
This is my favorite time of year to sing in the church choir, because we are practicing Christmas music, and I love Christmas music – the old, the new, and anything in between. When I was six years old, I began to sing in public, and I’ve loved singing ever since. Probably because people were…
Maurice Sendak is the illustrator and author of this wonderful children’s book, the 1964 winner of the Caldecott Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year. I love the little boy Max and his fantastical journey to the land where the Wild Things are. I love how very wild Max and the Wild Things are and yet how…
Wild Word Friday! You don’t get much wilder than a LIBRARY. What? Really, you don’t. You can pull a book from a LIBRARY shelf and become Frankenstein or Hannibal the Cannibal or Alexander the Great. You can be a pioneer child in the big woods of Wisconsin or find a hidden treasure large enough to make you into the…
I’m rewriting a scene in the third draft of my novel PRODIGY. The scene introduces two FBI agents. They’re minor characters, and I never get into their thoughts. One of them is an okay, likable guy, but the other is really irritating. My problem? I just can’t picture the irritating one. His hair color, his eyes, nose,…
ON BECOMING A NOVELIST by John Gardner is an incredible book about the “getting there” process of becoming a novelist. My copy is falling apart at every seam and page, but I still keep it handy for inspiration as I write.
Wild Word Friday! Last week I was rereading one of my favorite novels, JANE EYRE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Charlotte Bronte. In the part of the novel when Jane was employed as a governess, she would hear an eerie laugh in the middle of the night. She described that laughter as CACHINNATION. I’ve read JANE EYRE at…
About You! November is one of those months that I both love and dread. I love that November (in the US anyway) means Thanksgiving, the beginning of holiday celebrations, a time that reminds us to be grateful. I dread that the days are short and often gray, that the trees are bare and that November…
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