Share on Tumblr One writer most influenced the dreamscape of my youth—the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I read his poems in assigned texts in my high school English class. I memorized two of them thanks to songs by folk singers Judy Collins—the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”—and Donovan—“The Song of the Wandering […]
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Touching the Mourning Heart
Share on TumblrFor a long time, I have been interested in stories rooted in the traditions of the Jewish people—from The Red Tent by Anita Diamant to The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman. I seldom talk about the novel I’m now working on that is part of the Christian tradition—a reimagining of the story of Mary […]
Madeleine L’Engle and a Wrinkle in Time
Meditating Stories
Share on Tumblr As a writer, I tend to be a ‘pantser’ (“fly by the seat of my pants”) rather than a ‘plotter’ (relying on detailed outlines) when I write. Before participating in last November’s “National Novel Writing” (NaNoWriMo), though, I reversed course and created brief descriptions of a set of scenes ahead of […]