Social networks, the structure of some of today’s blockbuster novels, and experiments in original content for television and movies have given us a world that is a split-screen reality. Plot has merged with multiple points-of-view (POV) more than ever.
Pushing further, there is no one reality but a gradient of realities, in flux, and based upon...
Step into Nature—Patrice Vecchione
Recently I attended Patrice Vecchione’s Monterey book launch for Step into Nature, a personal journal of solitary walks in and their influence on her art (as a collage artist and painter) and on her poetry. Step into Nature invites the reader to join her on a quiet and unassuming spiritual journey, a discovery of the symbiosis we share...
“Shadow Dad”– Flash Fiction in “The Story Shack”
“Shadow Dad” was just published in the online literary journal, The Story Shack. The inspiration for the work came to me during a creative writers’ group exercise involving writing within a 15-minute time period. It was fun and revealed how sometimes “over thinking” can detract from the power of the original...
Profile in Scribbles–“All About Me”
I will be reviewing some movies from the upcoming Napa Valley Film Festival in the next few weeks. But in the meantime, I am posting a recent interview profiling my background writing “scribbles” in the newsletter by the same name distributed by my writers’ group, Central Coast Writers. Some of you have been asking for more...
Eleven Tips for Women’s Memoirs on 1/11/11
Thousands of us love reading of all kinds: fiction, history, memoir. Sometimes all three are combined into one glorious book. We all know someone who is writing: a novel, a blog, a series of poems, a mystery, children’s book, cookbook, screenplay and more. And everyone knows someone in a readers’ or writers’ group. Now there is one website...
Blogger Nube—What’s Up with That?!
This Friday, November 19, will be my blog’s two-week anniversary. So, for those of you out there who have been contemplating writing a blog, here are my Top Ten tips from my past two weeks’ blogging experience. Obviously, I need to do a lot more blogging to give advice to non-nubes. But what I learned in my first two weeks is very fresh, so I...