Grandma wrote bestsellers Have you ever felt you were too old to start that novel you've always wanted to write? Belva Plain was 63 years old when her first novel, a romantic epic titled Evergreen, was published in 1978 by Dell. What's more, her debut novel stayed on the NYT best-seller list for 41 weeks in hardcover, and another 20 weeks in paperback, and was later made into a … [Read more...]
Rod McKuen Altered Book
King of Kitsch? Former US Poet Laureate said it was irrelevant to even speak of Rod McKuen as a poet. Pulitzer Prize-winning critic called McKuen's work gooey schmaltz. Newsweek magazine called him the King of Kitsch. In Arts and Entertainment Fads, Frank W. Hoffmann called McKuen's poetry "verse that drawled in country cadences from one shapeless line to the next." Despite the criticism, … [Read more...]
How to Cope with Writer’s Self Doubt
I would start writing, and then say, "This is no good. No good at all." Does that sound familiar? In an interview in April's The Writer, playwright Christopher Durang explains how he coped with those nagging feelings that all writers get: After my mother passed way, I got a commission from the Phoenix Theatre... At the time, I said I was going to write a play in which everyone in the world was … [Read more...]
Flying your Freak Flag over 50
Non-conformist 70s fashion: The boho-chic, hippie look in the 1970s was non-conformist anti-fashion: free flowing, romantic, artsy and unique, and often involved sewing, especially patches and embroidery. Anything handmade or "natural" was coveted. As a young teen at that time, I loved to shop at Joe's Army Navy Store and the Salvation Army. I wore wire-rimmed eyeglasses with pink-tinted lenses … [Read more...]
How was that crazy book art created?
Have you seen those images of incredibly detailed sculptural book art being pinned and re-pinned all over Pinterest? They are crazy! Don't you wonder how they were created? I do mixed media, altered book art, but my work can't compare to this craziness! TED has a video featuring the work of artist Brian Dettmer, who carves sculptures from outdated encyclopedias, textbooks and dictionaries. So … [Read more...]
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