Category: research
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Colour Me…??
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I don’t decorate with red and green for Christmas. Ironic, because red was my favourite colour when I was a child, and it is an attractive combination. I don’t mind it in small doses, but in large amounts it does tend to smack you in the eye. Is that holiday…
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Daytime in the Garden of Bad Tourists
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Recently my hubby and I visited Savannah, Georgia, the setting for a best-selling phenomenon of a book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; it reigned at the top of the NY Times list for a still-unbroken record of 216 weeks. Didn’t read the book at the time, but…
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And demons shall meet with monsters
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As writers, we get to have fun with the idea: ‘What if this character really existed?” Since it’s October and the season for fear and frights, in this post we’ll take a look at Lilith, a nasty creature who shows up with annoying regularity in my heroine Romy’s life. They…
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Gather ye rose-buds
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Image: blush pink rose at the Niagara Falls Botanic Garden – by E. Jurus, all rights reserved Roses are beautiful. But like all things with great beauty, over the millennia they’ve incited great passions. If you think of them only as an expensive flower to give at Valentine’s, or send…
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The music of summer
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Image: Enjoying lunch and the view in Bemus Pt, a classic lakeside resort town on Chautauqua Lake in NY State – photo by E. Jurus, all rights reserved. Sweet Rosie O’Grady,My dear little Rose,She’s my steady lady,Most ev’ryone knows.And, when we are married,How happy we’ll be;I love sweet Rosie O’Grady,And…
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The wonderful world of vintage carousels – Pt 1
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Music. Hot dogs and ice cream. Sunshine and breezes. Rides. Memories of childhood summers in the 1900s, and not just in that century. Happily, old-fashioned amusement parks still exist, and families still turn out to enjoy their simpler pleasures, free from timed attractions, long lineups and exorbitant prices. Summertime when…
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The wonderful world of vintage carousels — preview
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After dinner I closeted myself in Alistair’s study. With a bit of hunting, I found the book about carousels on one of the shelves. It was titled Garosello, the Little Battle of the Animals. There was a photo of a classic prancing horse on the cover. I’d always loved carousels,…
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The power of photos
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but as an author clearly I love a great collection of words. Still, I also believe in the power of photographs. The lead photo for this blog is a mysterious teaser. I had a particular theme for tonight’s blog in mind, but…
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Barking up the wrong idiom
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Monday’s Facebook quote may not have made a lot of sense to you initially, but it will in two shakes 😉. Today we’re looking at idioms, which are so pervasive in our culture that we rarely think about them. It’s hard to find an adequate definition of “idiom”. The worst…
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A.I. and a writer’s perspective
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Someone asked me the other day how, as an author, I felt about A.I. Let me answer that by mentioning a query in one of the Facebook groups for authors that I belong to. A fellow asked this question: if he used A.I. to create an entire novel for him,…