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Sorry for the long hiatus - I had to take some time to help my family. My stepfather had surgery and some problems and is still recovering. He's finally home - but it's been a long road with a great distance yet to go to recovery.
Hope everyone is still doing well, and I thank everyone for their wonderful comments. I also hope you will continue to read and enjoy my efforts.
Thank you again, LisaB.
Spring's first day was covered with six inches of very wet snow. Less than two weeks later, Easter Sunday was crowned with 80 degree temperatures. Welcome to spring-time in Oklahoma.
April is National Poetry Month - so read and share your favorite poetry and poets. Poets and Writers is a good place to start, http://www.pw.org/.
If you like to write, check out Poetic Asides, http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/, where there will be a prompt for each day of this month.
I've been catching up on my reading, looking back through some fiction pieces and working on some poetry. I hope everyone made it through the winter and is beginning to enjoy some spring - a time of rebirth, renewal, and fresh starts.
Forgot to mention, but in the midst of working on my poetry chapbook for Poetic Asides, I also submitted a flash fiction story and a poem for consideration to the Red Dirt Anthology. Haven't heard anything yet, but keeping my fingers crossed.
Read more...Tooting my own horn, here - I was selected as a Favorite Writer for the Quarter on Poetry Dances. I really appreciate this as there are many, many excellant poets in this forum.
Thank you, Poetry Dances!
http://www.poetrydances.com/favoritewritersnovjan10.htm
For additional news, please check out the following link:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/196189
My poem, "Ancient Song", is a featured selection for this quarter at PoetryDances.com; http://poetrydances.com/poemsnov09jan10.htm I actually posted it in September, and you saw it first!
Read more...I hope everyone in the U.S. enjoyed a wonderful Labor Day holiday. I took some extra time in addition. So while I've been on vacation this week, I have spent a lot ot time working on family history. Several of the family members have been working on tracing our common ancestry. It's very easy to get lost in it . It's also amazing what is available online much of which is courtesy of the LDS Family Center. With so many records now available on the Internet, most of the time you no longer have to travel just to find something. It's still time-consuming to dig through everything, but it's very gratifying to find each piece. Like filling in a giant puzzle or solving a mystery.
For anyone who would like to read the short story "For the Love of Lily" as a single, revised posting, check out A Cup of Words - The Journal. The Journal is the blog site for our writer's group, so you will see postings from several members of our group. For those of you who enjoy poetry, you might also check out Timeless Lyrical Ephemera which features poetry from different members.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the snippet of story, so I have another installment for you. Still rough draft, untitled and uncertain as to where it's going. Sometimes that's the way it works, though. I just sit down and start typing, or writing and see what develops. Sometimes, I get a complete idea and then flesh it out.
So, see what you think, and I'll see where it leads us.
Thank you for all your wonderful comments and feedback. It's immensely gratifying to have readers to enjoy my work. Whenever I get bogged down, or discouraged, I look back at the wonderful words you have left me, and start again.
Enjoy!
You know, it doesn't really take much to make a writer happy. Just someone to read and appreciate our work.
So as you might imagine, I'm very happy that one of my submissions to Six Word Stories, http://www.sixwordstories.net, was featured on July 24, 2009. If you're interested, check it out at the link below.
http://sixwordstories.net/2009/07/wall-cloud-f6-tor.
Well, I've spent the last week finalizing a flash fiction piece that I just submitted today. I have to admit, I'm more than a little nervous, since this is the first piece I've submitted anywhere other than on my blog.
The story was for the Writer's Digest Your Story competition which occurs every other month. A prompt is posted on the website and published in the magazine. Then you have a relatively short period of time to develop a 750 word or under piece and submit by a deadline. The editors then select the top five stories and post them in the Forum where they will be voted on for the winner. The winning story will be published an upcoming issue of the magazine.
For more details, see the website: http://www.writersdigest.com/yourstory
So everyone think good thoughts and if you're interested, you might stop by the WD site, sign up for the Forum and vote for the best story. I would love for it to be mine, but everyone should vote for the story they feel is the best written. The site is a wonderful resource for any writer or poet, so you might want to take a look anyway.
Wish me luck!
Well, I attended the poetry reading by Billy Collins at TU. It was great! He read from both current and past books, so I heard poems to which I had not been previously exposed. Now, I have to go looking for some of his earlier works so that I will be able to reread them.
I even had him sign one of his books - something I don't do very often.
It surprised me somewhat to find that it was better read by the poet himself. When I read, I bring my own experiences to the poem. When Billy Collins read, I felt that I gained insight into him that I had missed during my own readings. I guess because I heard and felt more clearly his own experience during his reading.
If you have a chance to hear him, I highly recommend it!
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