When reality isn’t enough, you build your universe. That’s precisely what J.F. Monroe did with the Legacy of the Four trilogy, creating a world where ancient powers walk among us and destiny can be rewritten by the courage of the human heart. A lifelong devotee of fantasy fiction, Monroe crafts stories that blend epic adventureContinue reading “Finding Unlikely Heroes for Your Story in Unexpected Places”
Tag Archives: #Prolific Writers Life
Start By Writing What You Know But Keep Learning
John DeDakis (pronounced dee-DAY-kiss) is a former editor on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” DeDakis is the author of six novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series. In his most recent novel, Enemies Domestic, Lark is a pregnant White House press secretary forced to make an abort-or-not-to-abort decision in a highly toxic andContinue reading “Start By Writing What You Know But Keep Learning”
Story-Power Celebrates Fifth Year of Sharing Inspiring Stories
Celeste is a certified massage therapist for 30 years mostly working with people who have been injured in some way. But before that she loved stories of all kinds beginning with the family movie nights instituted by the parents she shares with Lucinda. Celeste got hooked on reading in 7th grade. Lucinda is a retiredContinue reading “Story-Power Celebrates Fifth Year of Sharing Inspiring Stories”
Art Revival
This post contains affiliate links. “I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.” ~ Paul Wellstone “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”Continue reading “Art Revival”
Stories: The Oldest Teaching Tool
This post contains affiliate links. “Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” ~ Roger C Schank, Cognitive Scientist “Spiritual transformation is our remaining pathway to sustainability as a species embedded on this planet.” ~ Gayatri Laraine I’m on a mission. My goal is to useContinue reading “Stories: The Oldest Teaching Tool”