Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 30 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The OneVoice subsumes. The OneVoice knows only itself, has stolen thousands of voices so that they will sing to it of itself, building a choir only in…
See Previous | See Next This week my echinacea (despite stiff competition) is working hard to steal the front-garden show. But also, front and back, my liatris are blooming! I’m not sure why I like liatris so much, but I do, and Yay! they’re here! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years confirms that this is definitely the time of the liatris! (Also echinacea.) Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years highlights the echinacea a little bit more. (Also the…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 29 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The desert. It is an emptiness that grows wider, more still and vicious, and presses itself outward from their void. Its voice was taken by a sky…
See Previous | See Next This week there are more lilies! Day lilies and asiatic lilies. Though some other bits of the garden are showing the heat. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows more July colors, and the way my garden gets rather a going-to-seed look this time of year – but with colors! Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years makes my garden almost look put together – always show the pretty side. …This week, my garden…
Okay, this has been driving me crazy. It’s “got another think coming.”
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 28 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The others, the four only who are left, can feel the shape of where she has gone. Gone and not gone. The path to where she is…
See Previous | See Next Sorry for being late. But, Ta-da! All the July flowers are now here! Tiger lilies and cherry bells, yarrow and daisies and coreopsis. And there’s echinacea too, blooming in the front garden. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows more lilies. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows liatris, too, which isn’t quite blooming yet, but should be soon. …This week, my garden is very awake in the bright, bright Sun.
Okay, I said last writing post that I like revisions. And recently I experienced a good example of the importance (for me*) of Targeted, Mid-drafting Revisions. There are lots of kinds of revisions, and I mostly adore them all (what’s not to love about effective problem-solving?), and so I thought it would be nice to share an example of this particular kind. * Important disclaimer: I don’t want to try to give any instruction about when a writer should or…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 27 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And then, abruptly, she realizes that she can hear the dervish skirling swelling and fading, and swelling again, in time with a great heartbeat. With this, the…
See Previous | See Next This week my garden is looking just right for wild, rambling, misty mornings. With mosquitos. But ignore the mosquitos. It’s much more romantic without the mosquitos. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years confirms that it’s definitely the season for summer lushness. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years emphasizes that July is also definitely the time of the sea of daisies (which has gone a bit rogue this year, but is still sea-of-daisies-like). …This…