In my ripening years I am
possessive of the Mystery—
no one else may own the Still, Small Voice.
Let me be an apologist for a glass of water,
What if Words are a Substitute for Silence?
Looking-Glass Girl: Alice Finds Herself in 1871
Thought I’d post a bit of my work-in-progress, Looking-Glass Girl. In this scene, my protagonist, Alice, first meets Suzanne Manet, wife of Edouard Manet.
Letting Your Character Teach You How to Act
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Want real authenticity with your characters? Walk through the door of your story:
Get to the emotion-point of right before the scene begins.
What do Murder Duck and Impressionist Berthe Morisot Have to do with Plot?
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Fifty Days in France #1 String Theory
It was my first trip abroad in 32 years. For two months I wandered solo from Paris to the French countryside and attempted time-travel. In my computer was a half-completed novel called Looking Glass Girl.
The Writer as Actor: …aaannnd ACTION
“Attached to the wall below me was a ladder. It must have been for building maintenance people to do whatever it is they do.
Today I must retravel
The taut ground of soothsayer
Who broods in caverns for a glimpse of light.
How have I lost the glinting stone
I kept so long in my fist?
Game of Poems
You speak in riddles because
You ache to speak.
You ache for space
To expand and contract.
Can We Talk?
I have not shared any of my work-in-progress here because it has felt too close to the bone. It’s a YA. It’s about art. And it’s about time-travel.
I Held Poems
Those most beautiful
I couldn’t read for a crowd.
When Sexton, blind with love,
Saw her daughter’s life stretch out,