Musings on the presence of spirits in our literature and in our lives.
Books by Picault, Saunders, Telgemeier. And thoughts from my creative journal.
I offer a short piece on an old man dealing with dying.
Continue readingMonth: March 2021
Joan Didion and Elmore Leonard encourage us to leave room in our writing for the reader’s imagination. Don’t overdress the blank form with smothering words.
Less is more.
I offer you “Showtime at the Stella.” Another character sketch for Kelsey Graf.
Continue readingMannequin Monday – Moving the Scene Along
SNL original member Laraine Newman teaches us about improv, about moving a scene along. We clothe our bare mannequin with purpose.
And I offer another character sketch, this one with a touch of humor. Enjoy.
Continue readingMannequin Monday – You Make the Rules
You decide what the mannequin wears. You dress the blank form. Your words. Your vision. Your rules.
Advice from a business writer and from a poet. You make the rules.
I mark one year of these Mannequin Monday posts today.
And I offer a brief story of my own. Enjoy your week.
Continue readingMannequin Monday – “A lot of pain in that invisibility”
“If you weren’t so quiet, you wouldn’t have searched so desperately for a way to speak.” Springsteen and Obama on the Renegade podcast.
A ten-year old girl in post Civil war Texas learns English to find her voice.
And a chapter from my book, A Twin Long Gone. Trying to re-create a voice.
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