Pick Your Prince
Harsh, yes… but the question is, have you picked your prince? Because that is what you do, you choose him, and you know what he is. And then, when you have chosen, you say to him—yes, that is possible, yes that can be done. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Book Will Not Bite You: Dune in June Read-Along Week 1
SCENE: A set for a cooking show. COURTENAY BLUEBIRD and JOE THE CAMERAMAN. Courtenay Bluebird is wearing a black jumpsuit. Joe the Cameraman is dressed as a space nun. He is so angry he can’t see straight.
A Book Dreams Itself: Discovering Ray Bradbury at the Small Town Library
I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Our Sunday Best: Who Is Driving This Story, Anyway? POV in Writing
I crave books I love the way I crave certain foods. I will stop cold in the middle of a task during the day with a single line from a novel or poem…
5-Minute Dance Party [Sonnet 116— Chicken Shop Shakespeare]
(Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds) Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,…
Sparring the Lightweight
Essentially, it’s like I got mugged and some jerk took the pleasure reading from my back pocket. Except that jerk was me.
Our Sunday Best: Lit From Within
When writers explain the writing process, they categorize writing as both art and craft. The words themselves are the art medium used to create worlds. The shape and structure of those words on a…
Mash Note Dept. : Sei Shōnagon
Read Sei Shōnagon and you’ll never again see the act of list-keeping as purely lowly or routine. I learned from Shōnagon that a list—any list—can be a thing of sublime beauty.
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