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THE SOUL MUST SPEAK, AND LONGS TO BE HEARD

A WRITER'S LEGACY

February 6, 2010
Tags: fiction, writing, writing fiction, dreams & immortality
A writer would rather write than do much of anything else. Writing is her gift to the world, a legacy and memorial.

There's a story about the king of an ancient kingdom in Asia--Japan or China, I don't remember which. This king is a poet, and he wants to leave a legacy of his  Read More 
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THANKS, CAROL

October 22, 2009
Tags: fiction, writing, writing fiction, Dreams, immortality
A few days ago I was noodling on Amazon, and noticed a new review on WHERE THE LAKE BECOMES THE RIVER's page. It was a generous and kindly bit of feedback, by a woman named Carol, out in Oregon. I lived in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle) for a couple of decades before moving back  Read More 
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Anti-Chronology, sez the Book, Is Where It's At

May 22, 2009
Tags: writing, fiction, writing fiction, Dreams, Muse, immortality
I do believe that if you listen, over how ever long it takes, a book will tell you what it wants to be. In this case, Where the Lake Becomes the River was determined to be non-chronological. It took the shape it wanted to take.

The book starts in a "present" wherein the heroine, Parrish,  Read More 
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THE FIRST AND FINEST REJECTION

May 10, 2009
Tags: writing, fction, writing fiction, Dreams, immortality
My first rejection was from The New Yorker, when I was fourteen. I sent them a poem, that had something to do with a storm and the exhileration thereof. After some time, they sent back a heavy, cream-colored half-sheet with a black logo across the top: the Manhattan skyline, and a gentleman with top  Read More 
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YOU TUNE ME IN, I'M A TELLY

August 8, 0009
Tags: writing, fiction, writing fiction, Dreams, immortality
I'd never appeared on television before. When the e-mail came from Morgan Potts at UNC-TV inviting me to appear on North Carolina Bookwatch,with gracious host and NC book maven D.G. Martin, I decided some web research was in order a.s.a.p. The taping was set for a few days away. The show is a classic and popular literary interview series on public TV, broadcast throughout North Carolina on Sunday evenings.

When I googled "appear on TV", immediately "do's and don't" came  Read More 
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