http://blog.mythicwriters.org Writing myth into reality Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:48:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bigfoot is on my brain this week.  I don't even have a reason for it.  That's just the way it is.  For some reason, Bigfoot and his cousin the Yeti keep popping up in conversation.  So I am caving in and writing about it. The most recent mention comes from this ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/10/24/what-size-shoe-do-you-wear/ Today, I am devouring poems and quotes that stir my mind.  Here's a snippet from my blog correspondent gig on Eric Maisel's Creativity Central blog: I am thinking about this today mostly because this is the anniversary of the publication of my favorite Edgar Allan Poe poem, “Annabel Lee.” (The poem ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/10/09/snippets-of-dreams-and-myths/ This week, my blog tour interview with Maureen McQuerry went online.  You can read it on my writing blog.  One thing in the interview really stood out for me, though, so I wanted to share it here.  When asked about mythology and her work, the author wrote, "Because myth involves ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/09/25/41/ Not much out of me this week.  I am leaving tomorrow for a weekend trip to Chicago for my cousin's wedding, and the shoes I ordered didn't arrive.  So I'm about to head out on an emergency shoe shopping excursion. So...I just finished reading Maureen Doyle McQuerry's Wolfproof.  (Finally managed to ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/09/03/snippet/ Part of a poem came to me last week, the way they do, almost there but not completed.  And I wrote down the beginning, the part that was born whole.  And now I'm struggling to get the ending, to get it right, to finish the thing.  But it's not coming.  ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/08/27/poem-uncompleted/ Every once in a while, crop circles catch my attention. I guess I’m in a crop circle phase again right now, because I keep finding myself looking at pictures of them, reading articles…Maybe I need to write a crop circle story. I was thinking that crop circles are rather a modern ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/08/13/crop-circles/ Over the weekend, I went to the Willamette Writers’ Conference. It was wonderful! I had a glorious time and can hardly wait for next year! But I won’t go on about that here—I already wrote about it in my writing blog. What I will go on about is one of the ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/08/06/yearning-and-recognition/ First, I wanted to mention that my blog correspondent gig with Eric Maisel kicked off this week. To see my first post for Muse Quest PDX, and all the others great posts from correspondents, (there’s an excellent one from yesterday called “The Forbidden Myth”), go to Creativity Central. Now, on to ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/07/17/sticking-to-your-story/ Going off on a tangent from something I wrote about in a post in my writing blog, I've been thinking about the differences between myths and mythic fiction. I think one of the biggest differences is in the characters, in how they are portrayed. In myths and fairy tales, characters seem ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/07/09/from-myth-to-mythic-fiction/ I am cross posting this from my writing blog.  I am getting ready to go away for the weekend tomorrow, and time has just gotten away from me.  I was intending to write a post about ghosts in the machine, but it isn't finished.  Still, you'll have something to look ... http://blog.mythicwriters.org/2008/07/02/yellow-dog/