In “The Artist’s Way,” Julia Cameron talks about “touchstones.” My touchstones are tangibles that resonate with the intangible in me. My touchstones are physical representations of aspects of my soul. And lest I digress into some new-agey, psycho-spiritual ramble, here’s an excerpt from a list I made a few years ago…
Dear Readers,
We interrupt our regularly scheduled bloggramming to bring you the following News Bulletin, which I just added as an addendum to my About page:
The publishing date for my YA paranormal novel COLORS OF DECEPTION has been moved up to April 2011! I’ll keep you posted on how the process progresses, dear readers — and in the meantime, I’ll be starting final edits soon!
We now return you to your regular blog posts (the newest of which will go live tomorrow). 🙂
My spammers think I’m a customer, and they think I’m a customer who’s simply jonesing for their products. They offer me all sorts of peculiarities. They shake their wares beneath my nose and assume that the pleasing aroma of a great deal is just too delicious for me to resist. They think they know me, and they think they know exactly what I want…
I feel as though I’ve spent most of my life in a desperate search for air and light and time and space. Most of the time, I haven’t even been aware of what I was seeking…but now, I look back at certain hard times in my life, and I find myself nodding in wry understanding. “Oh. I see now. That’s what that was…”
By the way, as I mentioned in my first post, I am quite open to your questions, gentle readers! If I say something confusing (the possibility of which, because of my level of coffee intake, is not beyond all imagining), feel free to demand request clarification. If you’re curious about me, pose your questions. (I’ll answer pretty much anything — and if there’s something I don’t want to answer, I just won’t. 😉 )
And for the love of all that’s good and writerly in this world, if I don’t talk about my writing enough, ask me about it! After all, that’s kinda sorta what this blog is for.
Photo credit the fabulous Julie V. Personal Style Photography.
Greetings, my dears! For my next trick, I’d like to tell you a little bit about my current work-in-progress (WIP). Earlier this week, I mentioned that I’m writing a paranormal fantasy novel. It is, as yet, untitled, so I’m bringing my formidable, literary creative powers to bear upon the title challenge and calling this book …
Once upon a time, I did not believe in outlines. I’d never heard of this thing called “pre-writing.” My preferred method of starting a novel was to sit down at the computer, open a Word document, and start typing. And that, my dear inklings, is how in 2004 I came to be in possession of an unfinished, 12,000-word chunk of fantasy novel…
When I first came up with the idea for this post, I was just drifting off to sleep. “Writers = bats” popped into my head. I woke up enough to grab the nearest writing utensil — which happened to be my iPhone — and “scribbled” the email subject line “writers are like bats. pinging.” I sent it to myself…
For a writer, the scariest part of any story — whether it’s horror or romance — might just be the very first line. For a blogger, the Frightening First comes in the form of the obligatory introductory post.