I wanted another interview with my main character, Daniel. (After five tries, he’s seems o.k. with this name.) So how do I get in contact with him again? The first time I interviewed him, I was chopping onions and I thought about him just being there in my kitchen, like a real person. This time [...]
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Character development: Daniel takes me on a tour
Posted in character development, Writing, tagged character development, characters, curiosity, life, loneliness, thoughts, words, writers, Writing on January 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Why read?
Posted in reading, tagged books, C.S. Lewis, language, libraries, life, loneliness, quotes, ray bradbury, reading, solitude, thoughts, words, writers, Writing on January 2, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I love C.S. Lewis’s powerfully simple answer: We read to know we are not alone. We learn we are not alone in our struggle to make sense of this world. We learn that everyone throughout time struggles with various aspects of hope and despair, good and evil, love and hate, along with all the varying degrees of [...]
Solitude
Posted in Quotations, tagged language, loneliness, quotes, solitude on May 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Tillich, Paul
Welcome to the Guardian Cats
Cats are the heroes in my book, Guardian Cats & the Lost Books of Alexandria.Now available for Kindle and
NookPrint edition available on Amazon: July 18th, 2011
Guardian Cats love the smell of old books, leather and ink. Like librarians, they are sentries of knowledge, wisdom and the historical record. Like true heroes, they must battle dark forces bent on destroying all that we hold sacred.
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