May your year be full of magic and overflowing with joy.
(painting by Gilbert Williams)
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Raine @ 12:32 am ·
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Dec 2007
Here’s hoping you managed to snare what you wanted for Christmas, lol.
We’re on our way to a New Year at the CHICAS site today. :waving:
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Raine @ 2:46 am ·
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Dec 2007
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Raine @ 2:19 am ·
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Dec 2007
Didn’t I SAY you’d better watch out??!
I couldn’t resist doing this, lol! :grin:
We’ve got a rerun of excerpts filched appropriated from Santa’s Secret Blog at the CHICAS site today—come join us!. :waving:
(painting by Britt Martin)
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Raine @ 4:17 am ·
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Dec 2007
The gracious and oh-so-generous Bernita of An Innocent A-Blog has been kind enough to nominate me for the Roars For Powerful Words.
I’m SO honored.
The idea behind the circle can be found on the site. To participate, one must list three things they consider necessary to make writing good and powerful, and then to pass the award on.
It’s already made the rounds on quite a few blogs, lol, but here’s my bit:
1) A writer makes the writing their own. Not simply by choice of words, but by putting something of their personality/spirit into the work.
2) I think an author must be as vulnerable as their characters (whether it’s in the same way or another). Otherwise you can’t truly tell me their story; you can only tell me what happens to them.
3) Powerful writing means being dissatisfied. It means that even the finished work is never as good as the vision, never exactly what you wanted. It means wanting to do better, every single time.
Passing this on is tough! So many people have already received it, and there are so many fantastic writers out there…but off the top of my head (and other than Bernita, who I would definitely choose, but she’s already been inundated, lol):
THE SOUTHERN FRIED CHICAS (even though Tanya beat me to it!)—not content to just chase down the quarry and bring it home, these ladies work hard at honing those skills.
PAPERBACK WRITER—gifted, generous, prowls her own path but is more than willing to share what she finds.
JORDAN SUMMERS—complete with long, sturdy whiskers, useful for exploring all those nooks and crannies and doing it well.
Welcome to the pride, ladies. :grin:
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Raine @ 5:58 am ·
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Dec 2007
Margaret Mitchell~~Gone With The Wind.
Anna Sewell~~Black Beauty.
Emily Bronte~~Wuthering Heights.
Oscar Wilde~~The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Harper Lee~~To Kill A Mockingbird.
All of these famous authors wrote one great book.
ONE.
Oprah Winfrey once asked Harper Lee why she’d only written one book. Her answer was that she’d said everything she had to say.
I’ve been trying to put myself in that position. Who wouldn’t love to write a Great Book, one that would live through the ages, long after you’ve passed on?
But the idea of writing only ONE BOOK seems unimaginable to me.
Maybe I don’t have the ability to distill everything I want to say into one volume.
Or maybe I’m not exactly sure what it IS I’m trying to say. So many characters, so many voices…
I also have to wonder about the ‘reasons’ given for not writing another. A huge success is a hard act to follow. Wouldn’t anything you put out afterward almost invariably come up short?
Do you, as writers, think you could be content with writing one book, one great, glorious novel, in your lifetime as an author?
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Raine @ 2:34 am ·
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Dec 2007
Many authors have noted that the urge to change the endings of stories they’d read in their youth was a sort of launching pad into the world of writing.
I must confess that, even as a child, I thought this particular story warranted a change.
And yes, I’m aware of Hans Christian Andersen’s belief that having the girl go to Heaven would be the best of all possible worlds, and that the story is meant to highlight the plight of the poor.
Doesn’t matter. I hated this story’s ending as a little one, and I still do.
So, in light of the season, I’m giving it a new lease on life.
If you’d care to read the original, you can find it here.
It’s storytime with Auntie Raine at the CHICAS site today.
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Raine @ 4:43 am ·
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