It was said the Creator had taken a handful of South Wind and given each newborn Arabian the power of flight without wings.
“And now, the end is near…”
“And now, the end is near, and so I face, the final curtain…” – Sinatra “My Way” I’m referring to my latest manuscript, of course. This project that I started for November’s Novel Writing Month has been a roller coaster of sorts – It is a book I began back in high school and have rewritten four times and re-edited another twenty times in between. Having been so invested in this story and with a long and complicated history, there were times the two of us just didn’t get along. There were moments I contemplated re-writing the whole thing all over again. But we worked out our differences. We came...
Pulling words and thoughts out of the air
Ever have those days where you just aren’t sure where your words and thoughts are even coming from? I’ve been struggling a bit with coming up with blog topics for this week, yet I’ve been sending others handfuls of ideas for them to write in other areas. Why is my well of creativity overflowing in some areas and not others? So, I decided the one thing to do when you don’t know what to blog about…is blogging about not knowing what to blog about. Make sense? Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is to pull an idea out of nothing and putting that idea on paper. As a freelancer,...
Pinterest: Oh, the potential.
I’ve known about Pinterest for some time – watched others use it. I’ve had it on my to-do list for some time (I’m a social media coordinator, so it is my job to investigate such things.) Pinterest is an online pinboard. That cork board you have behind your desk with a variety of pictures and notes stuck all over it? Now you can put it online and add things, share things and repost things that catch your eye. (Yes, I hear the inner groan of some of you – another social network thingy?) But, oh. The potential. For writers: – My dear friend and blogger extraordinnaire, Caitlin Muir, suggested to...
My new home away from home
Not literally. But for my latest manuscript, I’ve spent hours pouring over every picture and bit of information I can find about Janow Podlaski Stud in eastern Poland. Isn’t it beautiful? I’m pretty sure I’ve dreamed about it every night for a month. In 1817, Tsar Alexander commissioned Janow Stud to supply the cavalry and stock for the nation. Years later, it would become the most famous producer of purebred Arabian and half-Arabians in the country. But the history of Janow is full of turmoil and invasion. In World War I, the horses were evacuated to Russia and never seen again. In 1939, the invading Russians took with them some of...