Relaxing With Time

Relaxing With Time I feel that I am a very lucky person. I appreciate all things in life from the small such as the smell of coffee when you open the bag to make a pot to the large such as getting a job you always wanted. I do not know if it is inherently […]

Continue reading

FOG

Through the Fog: Billowing, cold, steamy, misty, thin, thick, echoing, hushed, fog comes with as many characteristics as necessary to describe the current mood, scene, setting, location or even a feeling. Which one often tells the story. Panting, we continued to run over the terrain our hair dripping with the collecting dampness. They were catching […]

Continue reading

Layers

Layers The whole idea of layers has crept up on me slowly surfacing in my thoughts at various unexpected times. I am recalling as a child when playing in the mud on a rainy day starting a construction with a base. Using the base adding the different textures of mud by adding the amount of […]

Continue reading

A Few Thoughts

And a Few Thoughts……. We writers write but the words do not always come easy. I am not talking about that lament, writers block. I am discussing the process of writing words that have meaning and convey the essence of their intent. In order to do this, most writers practice. When I think back to […]

Continue reading

The Interpretation

  Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. My body trembled as the Great Tortoise of Fis came to a halt in front of the scout. The scout was hollering frantically at the cleric but I could not make it out. There was no need, the mahout cleric’s bellowing and waving sword told all. It was time to […]

Continue reading

On The Wind

I have been thinking about the wind in many ways lately. The wind engages our senses and sets the environment for our characters or is even the character and main event of many stories. Old man wind sighs. The North wind blows. A bitter cold wind aches. A soft spring wind whispers. The dry desert […]

Continue reading

Creating What You Know: Dali

As I have been exploring many of the questions that we use to journey through a creation as well as how a person thinks, I was sharply reminded recently of one of the most frequent pieces of advice by other professionals in creative fields. Use what you know. Last month, Mark and I visited the […]

Continue reading

Remembering ……..

When creating, the advice is to use what you know. This can be disconcerting when you are trying to create about events you do not have any experience with. Recently I was reading the author’s commentary in the back of a book and this author was commended by the publisher for conveying the feel of […]

Continue reading

The Thinking of a Creation

I have been using the cat as a hook for my discussions of the questions that are being asked and answered either deliberately or within the process of creating. More so as the cat is exploring and watching, calculating and responding, testing and pushing the environments in which it lives. We are working through these […]

Continue reading

What If?

The cat continues to jeopardize those nine lives.  The exploration of the “why” is one of investigation of etiology and beginnings or state of being. This can be a very dangerous expedition.  Exploring why often takes the cat into to unknown places and situations.  The cat is also at risk from those that work against […]

Continue reading