WORDS OF WISDOM

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

~Langston Hughes 

BE POSITIVE

 

DEPTHS AND ALONENESS

 I find myself going into depths that take me to some unusual places. I think that's why I enjoy reading horror. Several years ago I went through a tumultuous time in my life where I was falling into a bottomless pit. The changes in my life would be radical. It was a road that I traveled alone. In the end, I emerged a new and different person.

My writing has undergone some changes and that's a good thing. I enjoy dark and quirky characters because they are more interesting. They also reveal my own idiosyncrasies. When the veil was lifted I possessed more than I imagined. 

My focus at the moment is aloneness. The dictionary may describe it as being lonely, however, in my instance, that is not the case. I enjoy being alone. I'm wanting to write an essay about the subject. It may take me to some dark place and that's alright.   

WORDS OF WISDOM

 We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

MATURING CHARACTER

 I am expanding the character description of one of my protagonists in my stories. Np one can remain in their twenties forever, so a change is in order. 

DADS!

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

 I have found stories and poems in the mundane things in life.

~Genevieve

THOMAS CHATTERTON

      Reading Thomas Chatterton's life story, I saw how cruel the literary hierarchy can be, particularly for someone outside of it. 

SOME OF THE BEST WRITERS ARE OFFBEAT

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and superfluidity of adjectives.

~Sylvia Plath, Poet (1932-1963)

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

BAINBRIDGE- Alabama, Georgia, New York, Washington

CLINTON- Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey

HILLSBOROUGH- California, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina

RICHLAND- Alabama, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas, Washington 

ECLECTlC TASTE

I would describe my reading tastes as eclectic. I read everything from history to Shakespeare to biographies. I follow sports, politics, religion, and economics. Reading different genres and subjects expands my mind in directions.

Several years ago I took to writing poetry after feeling that my short story and essay writing had grown stale. It sharpened my focus on pace and expression. I have written over two hundred poems (one per night). I find myself wishing that I lived at a particular point in time. I love the time elevated trains were a common sight in New York City. Same thing with trolley cars. I was just a kid when the els and trolleys were fazed out. 

Reading an unfamiliar genre helped my vocabulary as well as my writing style. I have a file box full of words and their meanings. I'm more of a non-fiction reader, so the occasional fiction story is a break from the sometimes intense real-life story. Somewhere in the future, I will try another genre (love to challenge myself).

BIG BOOKS

 

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

HAZELTON- Idaho, Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, WestVirginia

LINWOOD- Kansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas

NEW CASTLE- Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia

WORDS OF WISDOM

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation...they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

~ Eric Jerome Dickey