A little more work done on my website today. Special treat for anyone who read Prospero In Hell and wondered what happen next, (if such a person exists). The Prospero’s Daughter series page includes the first chapter of Prospero Regained. Comments
While skating today, I noticed that they had opened a new parking lot that will soon replace the lot where we now park to get access to the W&O (an old railroad that has been paved and turned into a bike trail.) It looked good. There are a number of logistic problems with the old…
At the pool the other day, a child asked me if the Cherubim talked with sign language. I explained, not really. He then asked why he couldn’t talk. Justinian, who was present turned around and answered: “That’s my brother. He’s dumb…as in mute.” I was amused that he knew the distinction between the two meanings of…
Ping Pong Dialogue Several people have asked me for a post on writing dialogue. This is not it. But it is a post on writing a specific kind of dialogue, a kind I only recently discovered. Ping-Pong Dialogue: Have some dialogue go back and forth quickly, taking less than one line on the page –…
Still a few more kinks to work out.
So, this week I’m sleeping in. (Next week, we start gearing up for school.) I come downstairs after sleeping late and spending some time praying. The only person in the living room is the rabbit, who is running around on its own. Ping-Ping’s on the porch talking to China (one of her friends is being adopted this week, everyone’s…
Guest blog today by writer friend David Marcoe. Enjoy! All art centers on ideas. All narrative art, where it employs story (where the character is irreversibly changed by narrative’s end, as opposed to portraiture), revolves around conflict. All conflict in story revolves around polarized values and their collision; life/death, freedom/slavery, success/failure, love/hate, family/job, et al.…
This week I was invited to guest post at Magical Words. I gave them the same post my friend Dolly posted Down Under a few months back on Why I Write Fantasy, so you all have probably seen it, but if you are not familiar with Magical Words, you should definitely check it out! It’s a site…
Ruby eyes and antenna ears Our new family member. I was prepared to go a long distance and pay a good deal of money, but a local baby costing only $10 caught Ping-Ping’s heart. Note the one ear up, one ear down. It had one lop parent and one straigh-ear. The rabbit was initially…
Nearly every rabbit in pictures in books and stuff is a white rabbit with dark, dark eyes. Apparently, this is really hard to find. Most white rabbits have red or blue eyes. But Ping-Ping has her heart set on a small white rabbit with dark eyes. I have no idea where we are going to find one…though…