I just wanted to mention a really great experience from last week...went to a reading at a nice local coffee shop to celebrate publication of the new, spring edition of The Lincoln Underground. Contributors to the issue read at Crescent Moon in Lincoln, Nebraska's Haymarket, and Editor Amy Keller and Consulting Editor Jeff Martinson put together a really nice publication that gives disparate voices a chance to be heard.
They meet there regularly for open reading mic' nights, mostly on Monday's, and I'd have to say, I'm going to try to attend more of these.
Amy and Jeff, thank you!
Notebook and Pen
Monday, April 21, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
My first message in a bottle...
The blank page! A true source of wonder.
This is my first foray into blogging, as you can probably tell. I started this because I don't think you can ever have a big enough community to discuss the writing that matters to you. Any and all writing that matters to you.
Though now well into the middle stage of life, I started writing as soon as I was able, and never had the good sense to stop until I'd earned three English degrees, and had my dissertation published on Nebraska's Willa Cather, back in the mid-1990's.
After putting the pen down for some time after that, and under the influence of a Barnes and Noble Nook, and of all the good, intriguing, and extremely affordable popular fiction out there, a couple of years ago I started writing my own stories once again. I posted the first of my short novels on barnesandnoble.com, and now also have this first novel as well as a newer one on amazon.com.
But as rewarding as writing can be, it's no guarantee of a community. A community that might read your fiction, but which also reads Stephen King and Barbara Kingsolver and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Sue Monk Kidd.
As time allows, I hope to put more messages in bottles, and to open others from anyone who'd like to throw their own message in too. Given my own generational background in somewhat traditional American lit, some of my own tastes might run a bit to the "retro," in the interests of disclosure.
But if we're to believe Ecclesiastes, "a living dog is better than a dead lion." So, here's to looking ahead as well as back, and to hearing from everyone who enjoys opening a good book, whether that "book" comes between two hard covers or with a power switch.
Thanks for reading.
This is my first foray into blogging, as you can probably tell. I started this because I don't think you can ever have a big enough community to discuss the writing that matters to you. Any and all writing that matters to you.
Though now well into the middle stage of life, I started writing as soon as I was able, and never had the good sense to stop until I'd earned three English degrees, and had my dissertation published on Nebraska's Willa Cather, back in the mid-1990's.
After putting the pen down for some time after that, and under the influence of a Barnes and Noble Nook, and of all the good, intriguing, and extremely affordable popular fiction out there, a couple of years ago I started writing my own stories once again. I posted the first of my short novels on barnesandnoble.com, and now also have this first novel as well as a newer one on amazon.com.
But as rewarding as writing can be, it's no guarantee of a community. A community that might read your fiction, but which also reads Stephen King and Barbara Kingsolver and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Sue Monk Kidd.
As time allows, I hope to put more messages in bottles, and to open others from anyone who'd like to throw their own message in too. Given my own generational background in somewhat traditional American lit, some of my own tastes might run a bit to the "retro," in the interests of disclosure.
But if we're to believe Ecclesiastes, "a living dog is better than a dead lion." So, here's to looking ahead as well as back, and to hearing from everyone who enjoys opening a good book, whether that "book" comes between two hard covers or with a power switch.
Thanks for reading.
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