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Saturday, October 30, 2021
A Writer's Moment: 'A familiar daily struggle'
'A familiar daily struggle'
“If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.” – Fanny Howe
Footsteps
into a new life yet.
Have you?
Do you find the squeak
of boots on snow
excruciating?
Have you heard people
say, It wasn't me,
when they accomplished
a great feat?
I have, often.
But rarely.
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Friday, October 29, 2021
A Writer's Moment: The Train 'Rumbled' By
The Train 'Rumbled' By
A train rumbling by; the hoot of an owl to break the night’s stillness; a floorboard’s creak just when no one else is supposed to be around. As a child we had only an old upright radio (not unlike this 1939 Trutone)
“Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include, and the similes you use to describe what things sound like. 'As she walked up the alley, her polyester workout pants sounded like windshield wipers swishing back and forth.' Cadence, onomatopoeia, the poetry of language are all so important. Learn all that you can about how to bring sound into your work.” – Barbara Demarco-Bennett
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Thursday, October 28, 2021
A Writer's Moment: ‘A Long Journey of Discovery’
‘A Long Journey of Discovery’
“I
think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of
course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to
eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to
write.” – Anne Perry
Born Juliet Marion Hulme on this date in 1938,
Perry – a native of England who now lives in the
U.S. – is
best
known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk detective series’. She took a circuitous route to her writing career, which followed time in prison.
At age 15, Hulme and her best friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker's mother in a convoluted plan to keep Parker from having to move to another country. The events formed the basis for the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures with Kate Winslet playing the teenaged Hulme.
At the time of the film's release,
it was not generally known that mystery author "Anne Perry" was
Juliet Hulme, whose identity was made public some months after the film's
release.
To date she has published over 60 novels and many short story collections. Her story "Heroes", which first appeared in the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. In 2017, Perry moved to Hollywood in order to more effectively promote films based on her novels.
“What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery,” Perry noted. “There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.”
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
A Writer's Moment: Nature Is Both Muse And Inspiration
Nature Is Both Muse And Inspiration
“The experience of nature is one of awe. One cannot help but marvel at the intricate design of a single leaf, or the roar of a great waterfall. Time spent in nature is time spent realizing that you don't know it all and that you never will.” –Nature Poems
Nature is full of inspiration and can easily serve as a muse for writers. In nature, we might find metaphors for our own human experiences that we never considered before. Waterfalls and rivers are symbols of life and the passage of time; writing (and reading) about nature allows us space to reflect on life and how it mirrors the human experience.
As John Muir noted: “When you tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”
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