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#Writing Interior Dialogues
I write in several genres, and I read nearly any book I come across. Itās a habit from the years of working two jobs. It was a time when I could only fit one book purchase a month into my meager budget, but I read the books in my favorite genres faster than the library could stock them. My small bit of excess cash was reserved for a $5.99 fantasy paperback and a $2.00 grocery bag of second-handā¦
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#FineArtFriday: a closer look at "Children's Games" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1560
Title: Childrenās Games Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder Year: 1560 Type: Oil on panel Dimensions: 118 cm Ć 161 cm (46 in Ć 63 in) Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna What I love about this image: I first featured this painting in 2024, and I still love it. Pieter Brugel the Elder was one of my first influences in the world of art appreciation. I love the chaos, the raucous jumble ofā¦
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A few thoughts on the craft of #writing
This week I found myself looking at random notes I had taken when reading. Some were from trade paperbacks and others from cheap eBooks. Only one was a deal breaker. All had one issue or another, but their good points far outweighed the flaw. So, one book made the āOooh! Gross!ā list in my notebook, and it happened to be from a traditionally published author. It contained all of the fatal flawsā¦
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#FineArtFriday: A close look at "Beware of Luxury" by Jan Steen ca.1663
Artist: Jan Steen (1625/1626ā1679) Title: Beware of Luxury (āIn Weelde Siet Toeā) Date: circa 1663 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: height: 105 cm (41.3 in); width: 145 cm (57 in) Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum What I love about this painting: I first featured this painting in 2024. I love this hilarious pictorial story featuring a family with more coins than sense. Itās the 17th-centuryā¦
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What I am #reading, and #writing
Spring has arrived here in the Pacific Northwest. Ā The weather alternates between too hot, with temperatures up to last weekās unseasonable 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 Celsius), and too cold. Then the next day it drops to last Fridayās cold and rainy 48 degrees, or 9 degrees Celsius. We need the rain, as it has been an abnormally dry winter, and forest fire season always arrives with summer. Myā¦
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#FineArtFriday: Harvest 1915 by Zinaida Serebriakova
Artist: Zinaida Serebriakova (1884ā1967) Title: Harvest 1915 Description: English: Harvest (FranƧais: Moisson) (Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹: ŠŠ°ŃŠ²Š°) Date: 1915 Collection: Odesa Fine Arts Museum What I love about this painting: I love that Zinaida Serebriakova paints women at work in the field, getting the harvest in. They are taking a midday break from raking hay. These women are barefoot, and their skirts are tiedā¦
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Books I have read and struggled with #writing
I often tell new and beginning writers to read widely, including genres they donāt normally gravitate toward. Ā I have a reason for this. The more you know about how other writers construct their work, the better you will be at expressing your own ideas. Having a large vocabulary is important. Knowing more words helps you express yourself with less repetition. You gain that knowledge from readingā¦
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#FineArtFriday: a closer look at "Boys in a Dory" by Winslow Homer 1873
Artist: Winslow Homer (1836ā1910) Title: Boys in a Dory Date: 1873 Medium: Watercolor washes and gouache over graphite underdrawing on medium rough textured white wove paper Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (24.8 x 35.2 cm) Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art Inscription: signed Homer 1873 What I love about this image: I first featured this painting a year ago. When I was searching Wikimedia forā¦
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Journaling ā a personal odyssey in #writing
Iāve been asked many times what I see as the differences between keeping a journal and writing a memoir. First, journaling is similar to keeping a diary, but different. You start writing in a stream-of-consciousness style, detailing your observations of where you are in life at that moment. I find myself journaling when I am unable to write creatively. That is not to say that keeping a journal isā¦
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#FineArtFriday: Palazzo Corner Spinelli by John Singer Sargent, ca, 1902
Artist: John Singer Sargent (1856ā1925) Title: Palazzo Corner Spinelli Date: circa 1902. Medium: watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper Dimensions: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.) Inscriptions: signed and inscribed āto Miss Gertie/from her friend/John S. Sargentā (upper left) What I like about this painting: John Singer Sargentās love of Italy, and Venice in particular, is clear when you look atā¦
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How need, wordcount limits, and theme shape the short story #writing
Short stories are a real training ground for authors because words must be rationed. Writing short stories and microfiction forces me to consider how the limited number of words Iām allowed can be used to their best advantage. It requires me to tell a large story using a small number of words carefully chosen for their impact. Word choice and sentence structure must convey a massive amount ofā¦
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#FineArtFriday: 'The Louvre, Morning' by Camille Pissarro 1902
Artist: Camille Pissarro (1830ā1903) Title: French: Le Louvre, Matin, Printemps (English: The Louvre, morning, spring) Date:1902 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: height: 54 cm (21.2 in), width: 64.8 cm (25.5 in) References: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/modern-evening-auction-5/le-louvre-matin-printemps What I love about this picture: This is one of my favorite paintings. I firstā¦
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#Writing Advice: the good, the bad, and the ugly
We humans find it easy to remember simple sayings, little proverbs, if you will. New authors are bombarded with many axioms about the craft of writing. Some will be good, and some will lead to later problems. The commonly repeated writing proverbs were originally intended to encourage writers to craft stories that readers would understand and enjoy. Writers must know the basic rules of grammar.ā¦
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#FineArtFriday: Castle Bentheim by Jacob van Ruisdael, ca 1650
Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629ā1682) Title: Bentheim Castle Genre: landscape painting Description: Castle Bentheim. The castle located on a hilltop, seen from below by a stream with a small waterfall, rocks, and tree trunks. Date: between 1650 and 1682 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: height: 68 cm (26.7 in) Collection: Rijksmuseum What I like about this painting: Jacob van Ruisdael givesā¦
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Sometimes I want to write, but words fail me #writing
We all have moments when our creativity fails us. This happens when I have an idea, but the words wonāt come. Or when they do, they feel stilted, awful. It happens to every writer at some point, and we feel alone in that experience. The words are supposed to flow from our fingers, but the well is dry and nary a drop fills our cup. Some people call this writerās block, and when I first beganā¦
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#FineArtFriday: a second look at "Haying at Jones Inn" by George Henry Durrie 1854
Artist: George Henry Durrie (1820ā1863) Title: English: Haying at Jones Inn Date: 1854 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 22ā³Ć30ā³ Location: Private collection Life has gone a little sideways here at Casa del Jasperson this week. I feel in need of something calm and soothing, a little comfort from the past. The works of George Henry Durrie have always appealed to my imagination and they inspire allā¦
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Making a fantasy map #writing
Our modern lives are ruled by the geography of our area. Rivers, mountains, lakes, and ponds impede travel, forcing a road to go around them. Unfortunately, maps have fallen out of favor thanks to satellite technology and the GPS in our cell phones. Many people donāt know how to read a map. Authors might want to develop this skill because maps (and the ability to understand them) are a usefulā¦
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