CURIOSITY
"Curiosity killed the cat...and some readers."
No wonder I often call my work a mish-mash, a patchwork, a collection of ramblings. My mind, when not working on a special project, goes from curiosity to question to idea and then back again. I'm not complaining--Oh, Heavens, no. God gave me the joy of a curious mind and I love it.
Readers will find I often give an "Atta girl" to favorite authors, new books, creative magazines,somewhere I've traveled to--even food, which I should avoid except for diet food. LOL Now, if I could only get someone to praise me as a person, enjoy my cooking efforts, be curious about my writing--Hey, do you wanna buy my latest book, "Growing up Barefoot in the South" or my first one, "The Quilt Maker?" Just go on Amazon.com--Oh, well, I always said you should promote, promote, promote.
Do most of you know the author, E. Annie Proulx? You might remember her for books she wrote which were made into movies: "The Shipping News" (a 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner) or "Postcards." I know her more for her absolutely wonderful short stories--many of my favorites appear in "Winter Range" and in "Heart Songs."
Proulx writes about the ordinary man in rural tradition, the rites of nature and the rituals of small-town living. If you read her stories, you will find all the elements of human life there: revenge, greed, hatred and passion. Her stories will fill you with images of people you will never forget.
Reading her work makes me curious about the author. Does she write about her own experiences? Was her heart once broken by a flim-flam (what on old-fashioned descriptive word) man? Did she really once have murder in her heart?
I would hope that ones who read my work would have the same curiosity. Did Deming create those quilts she writes about? Was her cat involved in solving a murder? Was one of her many jobs that of a waitress? What kind of woman would pour out her soul on a blog?
A very strange one?
TIP: Sometimes we are so anxious to get to the end of our story, we leave out parts that need to be closely inspected.
PROMPT: Write about something dark from your past, or buried in the fiction of your mind.
No wonder I often call my work a mish-mash, a patchwork, a collection of ramblings. My mind, when not working on a special project, goes from curiosity to question to idea and then back again. I'm not complaining--Oh, Heavens, no. God gave me the joy of a curious mind and I love it.
Readers will find I often give an "Atta girl" to favorite authors, new books, creative magazines,somewhere I've traveled to--even food, which I should avoid except for diet food. LOL Now, if I could only get someone to praise me as a person, enjoy my cooking efforts, be curious about my writing--Hey, do you wanna buy my latest book, "Growing up Barefoot in the South" or my first one, "The Quilt Maker?" Just go on Amazon.com--Oh, well, I always said you should promote, promote, promote.
Do most of you know the author, E. Annie Proulx? You might remember her for books she wrote which were made into movies: "The Shipping News" (a 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner) or "Postcards." I know her more for her absolutely wonderful short stories--many of my favorites appear in "Winter Range" and in "Heart Songs."
Proulx writes about the ordinary man in rural tradition, the rites of nature and the rituals of small-town living. If you read her stories, you will find all the elements of human life there: revenge, greed, hatred and passion. Her stories will fill you with images of people you will never forget.
Reading her work makes me curious about the author. Does she write about her own experiences? Was her heart once broken by a flim-flam (what on old-fashioned descriptive word) man? Did she really once have murder in her heart?
I would hope that ones who read my work would have the same curiosity. Did Deming create those quilts she writes about? Was her cat involved in solving a murder? Was one of her many jobs that of a waitress? What kind of woman would pour out her soul on a blog?
A very strange one?
TIP: Sometimes we are so anxious to get to the end of our story, we leave out parts that need to be closely inspected.
PROMPT: Write about something dark from your past, or buried in the fiction of your mind.
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