Oh, school. How I do not miss you. Don’t get me wrong, there were things I liked about it, but it took me a long time to realize that I liked school because I thought I was supposed to. It didn’t mean I actually did. I was just too much of a goody goody at … More NBP Back to School Blog Hop!
I have no idea when I wrote this, but my guess is probably around third or fourth grade. I’ll have to get my scanner working because some of these have illustrations that are just priceless. Anyway, proof that even at an early age I was trying to expand my horizons…into poetry! (watches as everyone flees … More The Lost Manuscripts – Poetry Edition! A Strange Day
This is a little piece I wrote years ago and haven’t been able to do anything with. I was trying to think of ways to express my birth month, and this is what I came up with. I may eventually try to do something for every month of the year, but I haven’t really thought … More Short: September’s Children
I got into Led Zeppelin relatively late in life. I don’t know why I put off listening to them in earnest for so long, but once I heard them, there was no going back. For one, I love the blues and I love how well they use it and fuse it with rock in their … More Music Monday: A Whole Lotta Zeppelin Love
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so let’s open up the vaults! Today’s piece of my tragic writing past is from November 20, 1990, so I would’ve been ten or so. I will warn you, this was when I was neck deep in my self-insertion fantasy phase (though some could argue … More The Lost Manuscripts: The Magic Leaf
It’s fairly obvious that my love of fantasy and my love of music really fuel In the Red. That comes across pretty blatantly, and I probably don’t even have to say that’s the case anymore. Yet there’s something else that fueled that story, or rather something that I discovered part way into the piece. In … More Fantasy, Rock n’ Roll, and…Getting Spiritual?
Months ago I gave my schpiel to people about wanting to do anything in the arts. I hit on a lot of things: rejection, reasons for getting into this sort of business, expectations, etc. I want to go back to something that I kind of hit on, but I’ve had reinforced for me, personally, during … More So you wanna be a starving artist part 2
So yeah, I do like trashy rock folklore. I also plain like rock (especially classic rock and eighties metal). So I suppose this begs a few questions, mainly… How does a fairly straight-laced, small-town chick with a classical music background end up getting into something so different? And what’s it like to write something so … More On loving rock and writing trashy
No, I don’t mean the showtime series. Today I’m thinking about one of my influences for In the Red. I’ve loved fairy tales since I was a little girl. I was immersed in all sorts of versions from a very young age. While I tend to lean towards Grimm, Eastern European, and Russian tales, I’ve also … More Before Red Boots there were Red Shoes
Before I forget…to everyone who offered me birthday wishes here in comments, on facebook, or otherwise – thank you. You guys are very awesome and I am very lucky to be surrounded by so much good will. It was a very nice day, indeed, save an accident where I brilliantly grabbed the wrong hair dye … More Random thoughts on birthdays and updates
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