A Faerie Scribe

Wednesday Prompt

2008-09-24T08:29:00.000-07:00

Here we go again..
It's Wednesday, that middle day of the week where you're hoping and looking towards the weekend. Here's another kickstart for your creative brain from Writer's Digest:

Your best friend has been arrested for illegally downloading music. While in jail, he asks you to go to his house and clear everything off his computer. As you start deleting files, you notice a folder called "Top Secret." Out of curiosity, you open it—and are shocked by what you find.

What can you come up with?

First Day of Autumn

2008-09-22T07:44:00.000-07:00

Another week has gone and come around. The first day of autumn is upon us and how I love and adore this season. Of watching the gorgeous riot of colors from spring and summer slip into the succulent, rich colors of autumn. Living in northern New Jersey, I adored watching all the brilliant green leaves turn to their various shades of russet reds, golden yellows, rich browns and all the shades in between.

That crisp cool scent in the air that breaks up the thick humidity of summer air. A light breeze that gently caresses your cheek and flows into your hair. It fills your nose with the scents of cinnamon from all those brooms ready for sale in the stores, nutmeg, delicious apples, ripening pumpkins ready to be chosen to become a jack-o-lantern, and even the decay of leaves just before they fall. It's a crisp breeze that promises a hint of cooler temperatures, of a light snow that is too come.

Some of my favorite memories are from this time of the year. Just as the leaves started to change, my family went to an apple orchard first. There we picked up fresh picked apples, fresh hand-pressed apple cider, and the most delectable doughnuts made with apple cider and covered with cinnamon and sugar. Ahh! I could easily eat a dozen of those on my own and not care one ounce of how much it added in weight. They were truly a delight for the tastebuds and I anxiously waited each autumn for the first bag of those doughnuts. Actually, I just found a recipe to make doughnuts that way and I hope it turns out similar to those.

After the orchard trip, we went further up the road to a state park. If you hit it just the right time of the autumn, all the leaves were their glorious colors and most were still clinging to their branches, not yet ready to give up and drift to the ground. We would hike for hours through the various trails and paths, coming to the small Black River that meandered it's lazy way through the park, even coming up with a small waterfall. It was a blast to play in, watch little bark boats with a leaf sail bobble its way down. When we brought our Golden Retrievers there, they would romp and splash and play in the river until they were two wet rats with the goofiest of smiles on their sweet faces.

The day would end enjoying sandwiches, or a small barbeque, and top it off with the cider, apples, and doughnuts before we would hike our way back out to the car and a restful evening.

To one and all, help welcome this wonderful time of the year in before the craziness of the holidays come upon us.

I hope these quiet days, and chilly nights, help you snuggle up with a good book and a mug of hot cider. Or to those writers, entice you to your keyboards and pen and notebook to work on whatever magical stories that fill your mind.

Hugs and dreams.

Wednesday Prompt

2008-09-17T07:31:00.000-07:00

Hello again

Here to offer a bit of help and support along the way. Help get over the middle of the week with a writing prompt to kickstart some writing. Who knows what it can turn into, one never knows. Not even a writer. :)

From one of my favorite helpful sites, Writer's Digest, here is one of their prompts:

A terrible thunderstorm leaves you without power. When the storm is over you head outside and notice a neighbor heading your way. She's afraid the food in her fridge will go bad, so she's invited you and two other neighbors over for dinner—and it turns out to be one of the most memorable nights of your life.

What can you turn this prompt into?

Hugs and dreams.

Hopeful Beginnings

2008-09-15T12:09:00.000-07:00

While tapping away at the keyboard and reading the various blogs of some favorite authors who helped me along my way, I thought about creating my own to do the same. I only hope that I can be as much help to someone else as those authors were for me.

So, here I am. Your very own Faerie Scribe to offer my musings, writings, ideas, and hopes to one and all. No matter what road you travel down, I hope you can find support along the way. Me? I'm winding my way down the road of publication. A long and tangled road at times with many exits and options along the way. I'm just waiting for one of those exits to open up and accept me.

Or at least help the characters and worlds that live up in my mind.

With all these characters and stories floating around my mind, I find it is best to get it all down on paper or a blank Word document before they drive me crazy.

I'm just an everday, practical Faerie. I work for a living to pay all my bills and gives me some free time to do what I please, or supply the $$ to do what I please. What I please is to read lots of books and create my own.

No significant other to bother me. No rugrats to bother me. Just two purring furballs who occasionally like to get in front of the monitor and stare at me or lay over my arm so I can't use my mouse or keyboard.

So, yes, I'm just a simple, practical Faerie Scribe with cats and a creative mind that loves to stretch itself out and create fantastic, rich worlds and wonderful vibrant characters. I love them to live the life one can only dream about.

Hugs and dreams.