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I Got a Klout Perk of Moo Cards…What??
…and other incomprehensible social media jargon. I thought I’d done my bat crap crazy blog, but–during an exchange of social media information with some authors–I realized that one can never be done with bat crap crazy while one can still draw breath. I made the comment in the blog title to my sister, “I got a Klout…
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Perilous Pauline is (Fictionally) Adventurous
I am very (fictionally) adventurous. One of the great things about being an author is that you get to take virtual journeys with your characters. Note that they are virtual, and to those who ask if my characters are like me, the correct answer would be that they are waaay braver than I am. But…
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Sunny Stuff/The SFR Brigade Midsummer Blog Hop
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. Arthur Rimbaud The closest I came to anything “midsummer” growing up was Shakespeare. And back then, I didn’t know why it made them all bat crap crazy. My experiences with the sun were limited to burns from, and being told…
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Short Me = Tall Characters?
I was browsing the Facebook home feed and found this funny tee shirt and had to smile and repost it. I’ve been short all my life, including during my grownup years when I hoped not to be short anymore. My husband is tall. His mom, sisters, dad, brother, all of them tall. My kids are…
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Perilous P’s “How Not to Kick the Bucket” List
One of my darling nieces coined this phrase soon after an unfortunate intersection occurred between her gastic system and a nasty virus, resulting in the repeated hurling of her cookies. Now during said hurling, she would have been happy to die, but once survival was assured, she decided that’s not the way she wanted to…
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My Love Affair with Fiction
I do not remember the moment I became a reader. I wish I did. I wish I remembered the book that made me love reading. Maybe it wasn’t a book. Maybe I was born that way. My parents and my grandparents are/were readers, so it could be in my genes. Both parents would read to…
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Perilous P’s Lessons from Hurricane Ike
I was out in the truck on a lunch run when the radio news update reminded me that June 1st is the official start of the hurricane season (we’re already two letters down in storm names, so a tropical something jumped the gun). My years in the hurricane zone have certainly enlarged my understanding of…
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Dancing With Fear
My blog post about the book Becoming a Writer, called Daring to Act on Your Dreams sparked a small, comments discussion about fear, that prompted me to recall a wonderful essay on the subject called “Fear, I Embrace You” by Louise Plummer. (Thoughts of a Grasshopper, p. 71) I can’t recall when I first read this essay.…
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A Box to the Past
I was sure I’d never, ever forget a single moment of my journey to becoming a “real” writer. Oh, there are things I do remember, like the very, very first encouraging letter. It was sent to me by an actual theater creative director and he said that “…one can appreciate the playwright’s word choices…” He…
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LDS Blog Hop Wraps up with a Winner!
I wanted to thank everyone who stopped by for the LDS Author Blog Hop. It was a lot of fun and I very much enjoyed the comments and was happy to let visitors know that yes, The Moonspinners is both a movie and a book! 🙂 Now (drum roll) the winner of the digital edition…