February 2011
42 posts
January 2011
36 posts
Lady Scientists! →
My plague novel protagonist is a lady scientist!
Do you know who Anna Dickinson is? →
Studio Ghibli's Pippi Longstocking →
Check out Miyazaki’s hand-painted and long-forgotten Pippi Longstocking adaptation storyboards!
Four Icon Challenge →
Kafka's Calisthenics →
Book Cover Archive →
Irene Suchocki →
stunning photography
Smallable - pretty kid stuff →
Tove Jansson's illustrations for 'The Hobbit' →
Whoever said black metal and Moomins don’t overlap?
Tove Jansson's picture book 'The Dangerous... →
Some beautiful art from her 3rd Moominvalley picture book.
“‘Is love the thing that drives away my wisdom?
Is pleasure this feeling...”
– Brunhilda and the Ring by Jorge Luján
Tove Jansson - web exhibit + biography →
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior →
Like, whoa.
Lunar Flower Calendar/Poster →
Writing Disaster
Last semester I finished a draft of a YA re-telling of Albert Camus’ The Plague. I found it difficult not only to balance all the conflict I put in the story (sexual identity, faith, growing up) but also to write a novel about a grim situation that people would want to continue to read.
I recently finished Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (published Mar 2011), a YA novel...
School of Life: Bibliotherapy →
I love doing this for others! If you would like a free Bibliotherapy session, comment or e-mail me.
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring,...”
– Tolkein’s foreword to the 2nd ed. of LOTR
“Don’t answer. It’s not meant to be answered. But it’s like the...”
– ‘The Ice Palace’ by Tarjei Vesaas
Tobias Hall's covers for Tove Jansson short... →
Resolution
My resolution this year is to keep a 1-sentence diary every single day. I’ve tried keeping consistent journals my whole life with little success. I often find it difficult to stick consistently with a routine. But this year, I’ve removed all obstacles with this handy-dandy diary.
It asks me a question so I’m not searching for things to say. And I’m not allowing myself to...
Happy New Year!
Best wishes for a happy, productive and creative 2011.
Some thoughts from Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit
“But even within our distracted existence, we have to cultivate a version of the bubble* if we want to work freely and with maximum fluency in making connections and harnessing our memory—and to maintain all this as a habit. The bubble gives you that chance. It is the...