These poems have given me the needed words that I could never find to speak myself.
Truth Mary Magdalene The Repentant Mary Magdalene Lot And His Daughters Andromeda Cephalus And Aurora Ghismonda Receives The Heart Of Her Lover Sigismunda With The Heart Of Guiscardo Hylas And The …
These poems have given me the needed words that I could never find to speak myself.
I'm working on a memoir piece that deals with the neighborhood shopping area in the Chicago suburb where I grew up. I've got the skeleton but fleshing it out has been rather troublesome. It feels blah to me. I woke up in the middle of the night last night, tossed and turned awhile, then did something dangerous. I started to think about that draft and what it needed. It's dangerous to start thinking because, once begun, never done! Or so it sometimes seems. On the other hand, it's a good thing to act on ideas or thoughts that come in the night. So, my sympathy in the drawing above is all with Snoopy. I finally decided that what the memoir piece needed is more sensory detail. One in particular--smell. Why smell? Think about it. Each shop or business in that neighborhood had a unique smell. The drug store didn't smell like the bakery. Nor did the small grocery store smell like the shoe store. I think I could close my eyes and walk into each one and identify it by the aroma that hit me as I entered. Think about a few words that tell us about 'smell'--odor, aroma, scent, fragrance, bouquet, stench, essence, malodor, fetid--these are just a partial list. Some are good and some are yuk! (Yuk--that lovely word children use most effectively) If I mention walking by the bakery that had the door propped open on a summer day you visualize it. If I start to describe the 'smell' emanating from said bakery, what it was like and how it affected me, I'm going to pull my reader closer. The reader can relate. They know how a whiff of cinnamon can tickle the nose and start us salivating. Or what the aroma of freshly baked bread does to us. Writing books emphasize the importance of a sense of place. The sensory details like smell, sight, sound, touch and perhaps, even taste can help paint a word picture about a place where a story happens. Sensory details make our writing stronger and much more interesting. Some writers decide that, if a little is good, a lot might be better. Moderation is a better practice, even when adding sensory details. Back to my writing project. I think I must also explore sound along with smell. My middle of the night musing has continued to swirl in my mind all morning. Unlike Snoopy, I didn't start writing again in the dark of night but it definitely triggered these daytime thoughts. If you have a piece of writing that you thought was finished, have submitted to an editor and got no place fast with it, consider going back and finding places where you can add a few more sensory details. You have little to lose and a lot to gain if you give it a try.
These are my favorite Klance comics. Most of them will probably be from elentori, ikimaru and pretzellus bc I love their art :)
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This is the picture from the book "Morning is a little child" by Joan Walsh Anglund.The only book I have left from what used to be a substatial collection, but they got given away over the years, this one I kept for myself!
Digging around in archives again. I like this poem: By William Butler Yeats (b. 13 Jun 1865 – d. 28 Jan 1939) Photo from wiki (Edits mine.) archive W B Yeats - Collected Poems, 1889-1939 archive2 W.B. Yeats; a critical study (1915) gutenberg Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) mobileread forum lrf Yeats, William Butler: Collected Poems (Calibre can convert lrf to epub.)
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music." Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11. The quote is from Man Without a Country, his last...
#56 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905) 37 points At eight, I found nothing as exciting as a poor mistreated orphan. Swoon! – Anna Ruhs I read this again fairly recently and couldn’t capture the sense of wonder that I had as a child, but refreshing the story in my mind was enough […]
Whilst clearing the attic before getting some renovations to the house I found a box full of books from my childhood. This book belonged to my sister and is called "New gift book of Nursery Rhymes". All the illustrations are amazing, I've never seen another book like it. They were done by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone.
Calvin & Hobbes on Death.
NOVEMBER’S QUESTION: What is your favorite aspect of being a writer? Besides people reading and enjoying my work? And the surprise awards? Mm… Perhaps having conversations with my fi…
These are my favorite Klance comics. Most of them will probably be from elentori, ikimaru and pretzellus bc I love their art :)
Off of her best friends' advice, Calysta applied to work for the BAU. Previously working with Emily Prentiss (the best friend) at Interpol, she was fascinated with the stories and logic that Emily said. She was a "tough cookie" as Emily told her, a little "rough around the edges" but she was incredibly brilliant and a good team player and leader. Beautiful but deadly, Interpol people seemed to call her. And Hotch needed to catch his breath when he saw her. Little did he know she felt the same...
Which one can you relate to?
