Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. (Lewis Carroll) How to begin? How do you begin anything that must be done? A long journey – by taking the first step. An unpleasant chore – by grabbing the mop or hammer or paintbrush or whatever tool is necessary to get started. A novel …
Storytelling and Newsletter Winners
I love to listen to people tell stories. That could be because I’ve been called a storyteller, but I usually tell my stories with my fingers on a keyboard. My stories are generally printed in books and sometimes read aloud by a narrator on audio books. These Healing Hills has just been released on audio books. I talked to the …
Let’s Talk Books
“A house without books is like a room without windows.” ― Horace Mann On my Home page here on my website is a line that says my favorite room is a room with windows. Maybe that’s because I too think of stories as windows into other worlds whether I’m the one writing that story or the one reading stories others …
A Storytelling Couch
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn’t. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice – by work. – Donna Tartt I was once called a storyteller by a person I respected. I think it was one of the nicest things anybody has ever …
The Adventure of Reading
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” (Charles William Eliot) Sunday I wrote about how some fear we are forgetting how to read because of all our electronic distractions. I do think I may have lost a few reading moments to my phone and …
Winning Books Can Be Fun
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. ~Mark Twain I love books. I’ve had a love affair with books ever since I learned to read and even more so, after I learned to write. Well, I’m not sure I ever actually learned to write. I just started putting one word after …
Storytelling Time
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it. ~Margaret Atwood I got to do something I’ve wanted to do for years yesterday. Go back to the Cave Run Storytelling Festival. I went once before, probably ten years or more ago. The one yesterday was their 18th event. I wish I could …
A Christmas Wish – A Real Writing Tool
My Christmas giveaway is over, but I’m still thinking about all the great e-mails you shared with me about your favorite gifts received when you were a child or that you gave to a child. You let me have a peek into your Christmas memories and that was fun. So now it only seems fair to share my own Christmas …
Do You Love Stories?
December 29, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky for the last time in 1965. In a couple of days I’ll have to start trying to remember to put 1966 on all my papers. I can hardly believe it’s almost a new year. I’ll be 15 next year. 15! That’s a while away since my birthday isn’t for months …
Storms and School and Stories
September 8, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. We get all kinds of things at the newspaper office and when Zella showed me this, I thought of Bailey and Lucinda right away. I know Lucinda is a black cat and not a white cat and Bailey is a bigger dog than this with bushy fur, but Lucinda …
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