“Drama is life with the dull parts left out.” “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” “I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.” “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” Here is my favorite: “I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody […]
Your Characters’ Handwriting
Vimala Rodgers wrote a book called Change Your Handwriting, Change Your Life. The description on the back cover, states that handwriting is “a road map to the psyche, a clear path through the winding labyrinth of our personality. Every loop and flourish reveals an attitude, each line and slant displays a quality.” Several years ago, […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” “What you are comes to you.” “Once you make a decision, the Universe conspires to make it happen.” “Every artist was first an amateur.” “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” “Live […]
Writer Interview Art Tenbrink
Art Tenbrink has a novel excerpt in my anthology, Written Across the Genres. It’s titled Sea Healing. His stories have been published in various anthologies and he also writes Haiku. He likes to challenge his readers to explore human connections. Here is the interview with Art Tenbrink. Julaina: How did you get the idea for […]
Abroad, a novel by Katie Crouch
I read Lisa Marie Basile’s August 7, 2014 interview with Katie Crouch, author of Abroad. Basile said that although the novel is inspired, not based, on the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007, Crouch “gives her characters autonomy from the real story and the prose is poetic and arresting.” What I discovered when I met […]
Overheard Conversations for Writer Inspiration
One of the assignments in a writing class I took several years ago was to listen to a conversation in a restaurant and use it to inspire a story. I choose a few words I overheard by two women who sat at a table near us one evening in Utah. The story I wrote had […]
What Are You Reading?
Since October is National Reading Group Month, are you in a reading group? I’m not. But if I were, I’d request the group members read The Gravity of Birds, by Tracy Guzeman. Here in the East Bay of San Francisco, the forecast is rain tomorrow, which we need for our drought. It was cloudy and […]