I’m taking part in a challenge to try and improve my writing skills but also (and more importantly) my discipline. Please enjoy (or at least tolerate!) In an art history class I took a couple years ago, we discussed whether or not paintings could make people cry. Certainly movies could, and some music. Books (OMG… Read More The First Time a Drawing Made Me Cry
Virtually all of us have a natural instinct for telling stories, and it comes out in day-to-day conversation. When your car breaks down and you’re telling your friends about it, you don’t simply say, “I ran out of gas this morning. But my mom picked me up, and nothing else really happened, so I’m fine.”… Read More The Case for Storytelling
I was very maturely whining about a “lack of inspiration” on Facebook. I usually don’t, but whatever. I’m only a human being deprived of sleep. So there I was, complaining. Then a friend of mine, author of “Adventures in My Petticoat“, very kindly commented: “That’s amateur talk.” Why, yes, I do believe it is. And… Read More “That’s Amateur Talk”
Miss Marck 