Lisa Jo is back with a new Five Minute Friday word prompt. Whole. For five minutes of unedited bleeding. GO! Pieces. It takes pieces to make a whole. Atoms and molecules and cells organize into organs and organ systems. Body parts make a whole body. God’s made us that way. To function as a part […]
I’m Done, I’m Full
We are on the road again. Back “up north” to pick up my son’s car while he works. It took ten days and more than half that in dollars to fix the damage. He ran into the back of someone in bumper-to-bumper traffic on his honeymoon. So we decided to grab a little alone time. […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Samuel Lover
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover
Five Minutes with Grateful
Joining Lisa Jo today for her five-minute word prompt on GRATEFUL. Pouring words for five minutes with no editing. GO! I’m grateful for water that ripples and waves that crash. For sand that sings beneath my feet. For “I do” and “I love you” and a tender smile. I’m grateful for family and friends and […]
Do They Sweat in Duke City? / Fiction as Research (repost)
In memory of novelist Stephen Bly, here’s a repost of an article he shared last year on western novel research, especially as it relates to Cowboy for a Rainy Afternoon. Do They Sweat in Duke City? / Fiction as Research by Stephen Bly New Mexico heat blanketed Albuquerque that July like too many covers […]
Five Minutes with Wonder
Joining Lisa Jo today for her five-minute word prompt on wonder. GO! Sometimes I hurtle through my day with asteroid momentum, numb to the awe-tinged. Sometimes I just dog paddle through my week while glory swims around me. I rush through life at a frantic pace with eyes that do not see. I don’t stop […]
Window on Writing: Whoa!
We head east, past the field, past the house. Dennis leads the way. Turk’s a buckskin, part American Saddlebred. I follow on Lady, his part-Shetland strawberry roan. She’s my age, and I think she’s jealous. She limps. And swings her head around to nip at my feet. I call ahead. I think she’s hurt. […]
Textures of Text: Book Review ~ Story Engineering by Larry Brooks
My shelves sag with writing books. But this one won’t make it to the shelf any time soon. Story Engineering demands a second reading. Maybe a third. A lingering over several paragraphs and pages. Because there is so much here. Yes, he does repeat a lot, but that’s what my brain needs. Repetition in various […]
Window on Writing: More Poems-in-Waiting
I admit it. I’m hooked on Wordles. So here is a continuation of yesterday’s post. From Karen’s There-Isn’t-a-Story Wordle: Life sank low gathered skin smothered death Hope. From Karin’s Wordle-ing Poetry Frozen layers brittle heart splintered love cradled gentle warmth surrendered joy released. From MaryAnn’s Collected Poems Wordle: Morning flowers wreathing time ancient skies […]
Textures of Text: Poems-in-Waiting
Last week I texturized a year of my poetry in Wordle form in response to a T.S. Poetry Press challenge. And L.L. Barkat found a poem-in-waiting within those words: Now find love gentle sweet, like blue expectations attached to grace. She found other poems in the Wordles of others, too, and featured them as well as […]
