July 2012 Blog Posts (77)

I don't really know how this site works...but hello everyone! I recently signed a book deal and my book entitled A Kiss from the Grave will be out soon.

I’ll answer two questions at the same time. Do you use that or which? Do you need commas with that and which? 

To answer both questions, you need to understand restrictive and non-restrictive phrases and clauses. Here are the answers in brief.

1. Use which and commas with non-restrictive phrases and clauses.

2. Use that and no commas with restrictive phrases and clauses. 

Now, let find…

(« Confrontation » by cordalth)

« Polygraph » is intended as a portrait of human relationships turning to the sour, hinting at the necessity of constant kindness and genuineness. The suite lasts about ten minutes and is composed of the following four sections : « Exposition, » «…

Inside the passageway of dreams are 15 doorways, which open at a simple turn of a handle. The first…

I have now had my internet back properly for two weeks which is brilliant except for the fact that I seam to be doing more facebook than writing. Actually to tell the truth just facebook. So today I started my early morning walking again. I had stopped them for about a month. But I greatly missed going because it is so relaxing and gives me time to just breath.

Tomorrow I have promised myself I have to carry on writing my novel. I have missed writing and can not wait to get cracking…

RECONNECT TO PAST

On a lovely day almost forty years ago I drove south from my new home in Winslow, Arkansas, intent on revisiting my childhood past. Though Highway 71 had changed a lot, I had no trouble at all recognizing Old Creek Road. Back in the early days it was rutted and narrow and meandered through the remote hollow where more than a dozen families lived. I turned off with some reluctance. This would be hard, for what I had always known was gone. Deep down in the…

(« Introspection » by Alberto Baumann)

« Introspection I » is the third part of « The Chrome Lake, » and its first section with vocals.

As implied by the title, the piece is about looking into oneself. More precisely, it speaks of having the courage to look at the…

    Chapter 1 

THE game is everywhere, in every town. The place doesn’t have to be special at all; it just has to have willing participants.  Asbury Park was one of those places that welcomed the game—with open arms at that.  Asbury was a small town, not even a five-minute drive from one side of town to the other.  It was full of liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and people that had forgotten how to dream.  The streets…

First-time author Marissa Carmel debuted last month with her YA fantasy iFeel (http://goo.gl/MnDYg). As she continues on her blog tour, see what she has to say about the expectations of being a writer and a mother.…

(« Goldfish Pulling a Snail Cart » by James Pollock)

« Perseverance » is the fourth of the series of segues composed to join the tracks of…

Another week of hot temps and I have to get back from interviewing this week’s featured author in time to perform for the local fair crowd. When I pick up Ms. Christi, I know she’s taken lessons from otehr authors and instead of giving me a specific destination nudges me aside and takes control of the transporter.  Where do we end up? Well, I’ll let her own words…

I guess it's been a while, but Olivia and I have finally put together the fourth episode of Sons of the King. In case you are not familiar with it, this is the Christian sci-fantasy that I am co-writing with my nine-year-old daughter.

You can read the full post at my official blog - http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2012/07/getting-back-to-it.html

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Five talented young basketball players from Rockwood, Georgia's high school, were all killed at different times and in different ways but they all were much too young to die. Now they have been given a chance to come back to earth for six months to play basketball once again and help out…

(« The flying » by Anchise Picchi)

i remember, once, i couldn't walk

sure, i could move by myself

but i couldn't walk

perhaps, i didn't feel the need to

possibly, i was happy crawling on hands and knees

yet, i could see

and from what i…

(« Newton » by William Blake)

it was a path, a road, a way forward

it was not just any other day

yet, in a sense, it could have been

had it been the unusual sunshine

the melodies of the birds

or something in the air

lures…

When I teach the novel, Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, I usually teach about the Mother Goddess and the Hero’s Journey. Actually, it just gives me an excuse to talk about mythology, something I could do all day. Going over this, though, shows my students that every single heroic story follows the same skeletal structure (I could go on about the Hero’s Journey in more detail, but that would take up way too much room). The basics, though, involve the journey of the hero on his or her road…

I have come a long way in my writing career in a very short time. I want to thank all of you who have supported in me in any way.

Come check out the Sneak Peek of Misguided Sensitivity on IndiesUnlimited. http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2012/07/15/sneak-peek-misguided-sens... 

I also started an author page on Facebook. The reach of this page has made it to…

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my most recent work. Feel free to browse around the site for my other pieces. Any comments or critiques on any of my stories are welcome.

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