I appreciated this post having studied with one of the people on your list. Ed was so kind and what I needed. I've enjoyed watching you express yourself in other art forms from ink drawing to writing. I've been trying to write a little myself and find the right voice. I'll keep reading your stuff. Keep writing!
I'm so glad you included Margaret Atwood in your list. I'd love to give you a list of other female authors I think you should read, but I will restrain myself.
Nice to read how you are transferring musical skills to writing skills.
Alix Harrow, Once and Future Witches. It gives you real history, plus an alternate history, magic system, race relations, suffrage movement, family dynamics and two romances. It is a triumph. And how she creates spells for the witches is masterful and clever. So clever.
Insightful as always, Jay. I like the interpretation that Tolkien was writing a food blog way before that was a thing...you know they kind where there's a back story and a side story and anther back story and another side story and then you finally get to the recipe! It was never about the hike...it was always about second breakfast!
"It is the responsibility of the previously-moved (you) to move someone else (your reader)." Succinct and powerful. Thanks, Jay.
I appreciated this post having studied with one of the people on your list. Ed was so kind and what I needed. I've enjoyed watching you express yourself in other art forms from ink drawing to writing. I've been trying to write a little myself and find the right voice. I'll keep reading your stuff. Keep writing!
I'm so glad you included Margaret Atwood in your list. I'd love to give you a list of other female authors I think you should read, but I will restrain myself.
Nice to read how you are transferring musical skills to writing skills.
Beth, you have my permission to help me grow as a writer and a reader. Give me your best!
Alix Harrow, Once and Future Witches. It gives you real history, plus an alternate history, magic system, race relations, suffrage movement, family dynamics and two romances. It is a triumph. And how she creates spells for the witches is masterful and clever. So clever.
Beth, I've added it to my list also; thank you.
Insightful as always, Jay. I like the interpretation that Tolkien was writing a food blog way before that was a thing...you know they kind where there's a back story and a side story and anther back story and another side story and then you finally get to the recipe! It was never about the hike...it was always about second breakfast!
LOTR would be a completely different tale if there was a “Jump to Recipe” button on the first page.
Beautifully written. Thank you for the honesty in your writings and of course your thoughts
It’s all I know!