All are welcome.
Agility not required.
(Thank you, Pixabay, for the free cute monkey image. I made him pay for the book)
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Monthly Archives: April 2020
The Bees knees
Should we to go back a hundred years to the 1920s instead of our current and challenging 2020? If you see more photos posted from that era, you’ll know where my head is. My editor just informed me she will have my manuscript ready next week. So excited, but still a long way to go.
The longest drumroll
… waiting to see it in print.
(and fun with photoshop)
Unexpected Treausures
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Nameless :(
When you long to be creative
but the words won’t flow to screen
your hands are Nervous Nellies
’cause they’re passed down through your genes
Just grab ahold of paper, glue
and make yourself a trophy
then mount it to a waiting wall
(but just don’t look to closely)
Name suggestions are appreciated!
Through our looking glasses
Amazing, the human brain.
Our eyes might be reading words
but our minds conjure vivid pictures.
Here’s to the books that pull us away from reality, plunk us into worlds and places we’ve never been, introduce us to people we’ve never met, and allow us to witness events we’ve never experienced.
Beat your drum slowly
Pastel on paper ©Carolyn Dennis-Willingham
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Does everything change?
Love grows broader or thinner.
Hope blossoms or wains.
Despair peaks or evaporates.
Fear paralyzes or fades.
Does everything change?
No need to hurry.
Even change itself shifts its pace
But nuggets of moments tucked neatly,
a pocket filled of treasures preserved,
remain.
Let your breath travel
Venture to a road less traveled
mysteries wither, then unravel
a fate explained
a purpose gained
amidst the trodden gravel.
© Carolyn Dennis-Willingham
The Writers block
You know how, when you finish that memoir, novel, book of poetry, and all of a sudden, your realize it’s done? Over?
Maybe your writing is in the hands of an editor. Maybe your work is already published (Hooray!). But now?
Perhaps you’re all-too familiar with this phenomenon called writer’s block. Maybe you feel the agony of it now because any new characters at your door aren’t knocking loud enough for you to hear.
You miss forming words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into a manuscript. You long to taste new words on your tongue and massage them between your fingers. But they are out of reach. I’m included in this category of empty blockheads.
Perhaps, for novel writers, we should start with a real block. Each of the six sides holds the secrets to starting anew.
Side one: Think of a cool protagonist.
Side two: A badass antagonist.
Side three: The inciting incident. Is it dangerous? Emotional?
Side four: The setting. Dark? Beautiful?
Side five: Devise a plot around sides one through four.
Side six: There’s a theme in there somewhere. What is it?
Don’t know about you, but I’ll be tossing my block around for a while until it hits me in the head.
Revenge 2
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Carolyn Dennis-Willingham 