Literary Arts

When the Tortoise and Then the Hare Sit Down to Write

Animals, Authors, Balance, Historical Fiction, Illustrators, Literary Arts, Silliness, Writing Process /

When it comes to writing novels, I am tortoise. At least with the first half, and there is something thrilling about the second half, like sliding down a long snowy hill, or as in below, leaping off the top step. I am still the tortoise right now.  For assistance, I return to a 1968 Paris Review […]

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Plank’d and Research

9 Comments / Authors, Books, Fairy Tales, Fantasy Fiction, Folklore, Food and Drink, Historical Fiction, Literary Arts, Myth, Renaissance, Sicily & Kingdom of Naples, Writing Process /

One of the greatest pleasures is reading Sicilian folktales midday while drunk on a dense-full-bodied beer (16.2 percent) produced locally in Boulder. Like the beer, the stories are rowdy, naughty, mythic, and full of gullible and wise fools who make donkeys appear to shit gold, drive menial men to do self-destructive things and conspire to

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