Boon Organizing your novel or story around a narrative mode can help your story follow a reliable framework and ensure you maintain your reader’s interest. The heroic journey is a great narrative structure to follow and is one of the most popular in use, just check out every Pixar movie. The heroic journey calls for…
I have read A Tale of Two Cities numerous times and have made notations up and down the margins north, south, east and west. The reading of it always mesmerizes me with the detail and development of character, setting and connection, of what has gone and what is to come. “Do you particularly like the…
I have always been a believer in the idea that there are things that are specifically made to fit a situation or need, but one can always come up with a bypass if that item is just not available. This is how I manage to deal with computers that don’t want to work or when…
So we decided to get a motor home, and my husband became married to a motor home online sales site. He searched all the time, sometimes showing me the ones way beyond our price and others within range but not configured the way we wanted. We looked at a few and they were intriguing in…
we did have the good fortune of having cats in the family prior to those marriages. So what made me think of this? I saw a Siamese cat, a beautiful brown point, sitting on a porch as my husband and I were driving home today from the store. And I just starting thinking about my…
Today I was introducing the idea that interpreting poetry is heavily based in the personal experience and knowledge of the reader. I wanted my students to have a strong grasp on perspective and how it influences how we look at things. So I found several Escher pictures online (http://mcescher.com/) and one by one (via the…
I remember when I first starting thinking about writing my book In Times Passed. I worked at a factory and was a product grader. I would pull off the line anything that didn’t meet quality requirements. Doesn’t take much thought or intelligence, just good automaton-like reflexes. I would listen to music, day dream, write letters in…
I love to read. I can do it anywhere. Long ago,when my parents would get into an argument, I would pick up a book and start reading. The sound of them would just disappear. I would dive into the story, think about the characters and what was happening to them, or read a really great…
