I have a case of writer's block due to a lot of personal issues, but I still want to stay consistent with updating. So sporadically, I will share with you pieces I have written in workshops in the past few months. I would love feedback so comment away!
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I have a case of writer's block due to a lot of personal issues, but I still want to stay consistent with updating. So sporadically, I will share with you pieces I have written in workshops in the past few months. I would love feedback so comment away! Hi Write Queeners!
I am stoked! I've been working on getting permission to use an image from a sculptor/artist from the UK for the cover of Sweltering Sugar...and I finally got it! This is big! I can't wait to work on the cover design. I especially can't wait to show you guys the image. Once you see it, you'll want to take a trip to the UK to see the rest of his work. As soon as I get home to my computer (been away taking care of family stuff and have no internet access - thank god for mobile apps for blogging), I am going to start. Once I'm done, you guys will be the first to know. Yay!!! ::mini dance party in my head:: Till next time! The Write Recommendations: Mother's Day At The Orphanage: Stories Without A Home Book Review1/10/2014 Hi Write Queeners, Just a day after he leaves my department with promises of more fulfilling work in our Law department, I finished David Abts' Mother's Day at the Orphanage: Stories Without A Home while hacking up an abundance of mucus in between the unfortunate settling of a cold and laughter. I had the book in my possession for a couple of weeks, but as anyone who burns the candle at both ends, I was too tired to hold open anything, let alone a book. When I finally did, I chastated myself for not doing so earlier! Within the span of 24 hours, I finished the whole thing, feeling a little empty when I realized there wasn't more (FYI - as I mentioned earlier, battling a cold and I had errands to do after staying at work until 8:45 PM on a Friday night, don't judge how long it this short read). About 60 something pages of pure insanity, I had to wonder how a couple guys like David and Michael Shattuck, authors of the book, get into such hilarious trouble that I would have gotten beaten for as a kid and quite possibly an adult (the wonders of being a boy vs. girl, I guess). From career day flasher costumes to attending weddings in Italy, each story makes you wonder "Did this really happen? OMG!" followed by fits of laughter, making you realize that whether they are true or pure exaggerations of ordinary events, you don't care. You immediately find the narrators charming and trustworthy because who doesn't like a guy who makes you laugh? A surprising aspect of the book that I didn't expect were a small collection of stories from others in the last section of the book. I found myself wanting more of their stories too. Reading Mother's Day at the Orphanage is like hanging out with bunch of friends, sitting around laughing and telling stories while having "a splash of wine" as mentioned a few times in the book - only you get to do that while on your daily commute or on a Friday night while quarantined in your room, nursing a sudden cold. With laughs, earnest gusto, and tenacity only seen in the brave (or really oblivious) and creative, you will find yourself wanting more stories from David, Michael, and the rest of the gang. Crossing off another book finished from the notorious Book Jumper (okay maybe not notorious, but I'm something), I give Mother's Day at the Orphanage a Write Recommendation and urge you to go buy the book today! Go and read an excerpt from a review on the New York Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2013/12/read-an-excerpt-from-mothers-day-at-the-orphanage You can buy it at http://www.mothersdaystories.com/.
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To start a new cycle of experimentation, trips, falls, and elevation, I present another e-book experiment. This time, we have a bilingual book of poems. Now before people wonder and get excited, I have to warn you that this is a rough experiment of skill and technology using my not very fluent skills in Spanish and Google Translate, to see how form and word play work in another language. If you don't know Spanish, you may find this beautiful. If you are amazingly fluent in Spanish, you may kill me. But I am very open to more direct translations and corrections. I would love to write longer poems in Spanish one day so helping me will help my art =) Without further ado on the coldest day in 20 years, I present Su Pequeña Lengua Rápida - Her Quick Little Tongue. |
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