More naps these days
I don’t know how much blog-hopping any of you do. I follow maybe ten blogs. Time, or lack thereof, prevents me from following more, but at least the ten I do follow are of high quality, and at least I am able to show some support to ten talented writers.
I would like to give a shout out to one of those writers today . . . Andrea Stephenson . . . and her blog “Harvesting Hecate.” You can find it by following this link:
https://harvestinghecate.wordpress.com/
Andrea is a gifted writer, and I don’t write those words casually. Perhaps I relate to her writing because there is a somberness, or melancholy, underlining everything she writes, but I prefer to think it’s because she is a true craftsman (or is that craftsperson?).
From her recent offering, Wounded, I give you this excerpt:
“I have always appreciated the power of the dark and the things that are revealed there. Darkness is fertile ground, a place for dreaming. But this season I have dreaded it. I have dreaded that long spread of days when the only daylight is diffused through my office window. And yet in dreading it, I have embraced it. At the year’s turn, I stood in darkness and welcomed it and it hasn’t been something to fear after all.”
As you well know, the internet is overflowing with wannabe writers, so it really is a joy to come across someone who respects the art of writing, who obviously works at it, and who continually churns out work of very high quality. I strongly recommend you stop by Andrea’s site and take a look at what great writing looks like.
That’s really all I’ve got for you this week. My memoirs are stumbling along. I thought I would be done with them by year’s end, but now I see I have to re-write a couple chapters, so I may have to revise that timeline. Oh well, it will be done when it is done and not a minute before. J
Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for your friendship!
Bill
“Helping writers to spread their wings and fly.”
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