Tuesday is the new design launch for Time to Write Now. My webmaster, Paula Gregorowicz, asked me not to post tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday so she can make the transfer from the old to the new. All my previous posts will be available as always. The menu bar and banner will be different. I’ll have […]
Where Did Maya Angelou like to work?
Maya Angelo did very little of her writing at home. She said that the comfort of her house was too distracting. “Angelou elected to write in the anonymous tranquility of what she described as “tiny, mean” hotel rooms. She typically rented the rooms for months at a time, and arrived early in the morning armed […]
Klinkenborg Writes About Metaphor
My critique partner in Corpus Christi and I are reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg. I’m opening the book at random instead of reading it cover to cover. Today, on p. 43 the topic was metaphor. Klinkenborg states that often metaphors are like “A stage prop, a paraphrase, a clarification, at best, […]
Coloring Books for Grownups New Trend
I’ve read about the new trend for grown-up coloring books. At the Ziggy Marley concert last night a man was selling coloring books for adults with intricate designs of birds and animals.The many reasons for coloring include a need to revert back to simpler days of our childhood, which helps to de-stress. Everyone can do […]
Ziggy Marley Fly Rasta Concert
The Ziggy Marley Fly Rasta Concert last night at Sonoma Mountain Village in Rohnert Park was awesome.We had an hour and a half drive home on a week night so we tried to leave mid-way through the concert. But our friend, Debbie Wiggins, took us by the hand and led us back into the swaying […]
3 Days 3 Quotes Challenge — Day 3
This is the last day for the 3 Day 3 Quotes Challenge. Again thanks to Erika Kind from Liechtenstein for inviting me to this challenge. https://erikakind.wordpress.com/blog/ My quote is from Albert Rothman’s memoir, A Brooklyn Odyssey, Travails and Joys of a Boy’s Early Life. It’s the last verse of his poem, “Elevated Train.” “I stand […]
3 Days 3 Quotes Challenge — Day 2
Here it is Day 2 of the 3 Days 3 Quotes Challenge. Thanks again to Erika Kind from https://erikakind.wordpress.com for the invitation to participate. My quote: “The historical novelist gleans the rubble of the past, tastes the grit, extracts the jewels.” Sheila Bali wrote it in her blog post titled “How History Leads to Historic […]