I've done almost nothing creative for days. I've either been working to switch my real life classes to online class or reading about COVID-19 or taking pictures of our dogs or looking at other people's pictures of dogs. Well, I did build lots of odd, random structures out of Legos. This is why I dreamed …
They say no one wants to hear about your dreams. Don't open a story with a dream. Don't end a story saying it was all a dream. It all sounds fair enough. I think Newhart did well ending as a dream. It's the exception not the rule, no doubt. David Lynch has a lot to …
Dear Llama, If you told stories, what stories would you tell? Would llamas write of teen angst, mid-life crises, or trips to other planets? Llamas in space? Llamas in love? The Llama, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? Probably not the wardrobe. More like a barn door or a pasture gate. Actually, no. Why a manmade …
I finished Story-a-Day May! I wrote every single day and ended up with probably 29 stories or scenes I can polish up or use somewhere. And even though I've ended up re-publishing my first novel on my own, that isn't what I want for the rest. Or I don't think it is. My dithering about …
In my calendar of imaginary events comes the Day of Dreams. You choose a dream to come true for a day. The only rule is that your dream may bring no harm to another. Work, school, and war cease for the day. You find a favorite place to curl up and wait. And as the …
If I could, I’d design my own deck of Tarot cards. I’d make several decks, in fact. I’d do one more in line with the traditional Rider-Waite deck. Another deck would be for writing. And another would be for women I admire. Hermione is a favorite heroine of mine. She's smart and brave and loyal. …
I don't really make resolutions. I set a few goals, but those are good any day of the year. One goal I managed to reach was to read 50 books in 2015. I succeeded in that in large part because of the Goodreads challenge counter. The Goodreads counter helped me in much the same way …
On a lovely October morning in 2012, I was sitting on my patio looking forward to a day of writing and drinking coffee. My phone rang. It was my doctor's office. I almost didn't bother to answer. What did they want? I didn't have an appointment to confirm. But I answered and the woman on …
Fall gives me energy. Maybe it's all those years starting school in the fall, going to the store to buy new notebooks and folders that made me feel like everything was beginning all over again. My dad wasn't one to take me shopping much. He was a single dad and so shopping for my shoes, …
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The news reached me about the passing of a friend. She was 83, and though she died in October, I only heard about it yesterday. We'd fallen out of touch, and I wish I'd made a better effort to stay connected. Don't we all end up wishing that one way or another? Last night, I …
Marta Pelrine-Bacon 