storytelling | storytelling
Sep.21.2010
Heraclitus believed that a person’s character is their fate. Character -- the sum total of a person’s traits -- influences the choices a person makes, and the consequences of those choices ultimately become that person’s destiny. Or not. Much of life is luck, happenstance, and totally out of our...
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Sep.06.2010
In answer to the many questions I've received on how to infuse more passion and emotion into your memoirs, here are a few thoughts on how to make it happen.
You set the tone of your story by injecting passion and emotion as you see it, as you feel it. We all have emotional memory, and it is best...
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Aug.26.2010
Gaia Festival, November 13-14th, 2010
Please join me in Santa Barbara for Gaia Festival 2010, an annual festival celebrating Mother Earth. The varied program of amazing and inspiring speakers, healers, and artists includes reflections on Ariadne and Dionysus by Stephen Gerringer (Joseph...
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Aug.03.2010
Rex.
Or at least that’s what I’d call him if, in fact, I had a mouse in my pocket. I kind of like the irony of such a big name on a little creature.
Anyway, to the point of the matter.
Storytellers, especially writers, need a mouse in their pocket. An often overlooked aspect of writing is the...
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Jul.28.2010
It would be just like Blair to come up with this week’s Red Room blog topic on “earliest memories.” Her book, Accordion Dreams, is one of my favorites, which will give you a joyful romp through her earliest memories of falling love with an accordion and the obsession, passion, and transformation...
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Jul.27.2010
Some time ago, as tears I thought had dried dissolved into curve of smile,
I sprinkled my mother’s ashes in my garden under the apricot tree,
From which we made amazing jam for many years to come.
Touch of cinnamon, of nutmeg, not too sweet…
One spring no buds appeared on that pleasing tree.
It...
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Jul.09.2010
... Back to the blurry line between fiction and nonfiction. I enjoyed the comments I received from searchers for truth after posting the first part of this short three part series. The following are a few extracted comments that hit home:
I received a Goggle alert announcing my death
The reality...
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Jul.02.2010
Earlier this year, I read an article in The Washington Post about a tanker that had caught fire 800 miles off the Hawaiian coast.
Fortunately, a cruise ship happened to be going by and was able to rescue the 11 crewmen.
However, as they pulled away, a passenger heard a dog barking....
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May.18.2010
I Love my IPod. I love my ITunes. I love the Internet. And working has become an almost a secondary passion for using the computer.
Here I sit at my desktop, writing my forthcoming book, listening to Lady Antebellum and at least fifty other performers, such as Diana Ross, Journey, Elton John...
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Jan.15.2010
Classic advice to a tyro-writer, show don’t tell. Always had my doubts about that. Maybe why I remained unpublished for so long, but never mind. I can understand why it’s an axiom. ‘Showing’ lets the reader participate more readily in the recreation of a story, bringing them into the action so...
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