Category: folktale

Interview with a Faeran . . .

July 30, 2010

Recently my friend Lua, from Bowl of Oranges, did the most extraordinary interview on her blog between herself and one of her characters.  I thought it would be a really hard thing to do and wanted to have a go.  The difficulty is that with the book Paperweights/Glass Flowers at the submission stage, I had to be careful just how much of the story and the character was revealed, which makes an interview really hard.  In this instance however I was really lucky because Finnian is like a closed shop.

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Bacigalupo . . .

March 12, 2010

When I began the journey to hold a Masked Ball on Mesmered’s blog, I never dreamed that a story would emerge from it, two stories in fact.  One is a short-story called The Masked Ball which is entirely different than the blog-story and which Pat from Bo Press Miniature Books is using in one of her brilliant limited edition creations.  But here on Mesmered, another story is developing and it’s exciting for me to see what my co-conspirators come up with each day.  Till now, we haven’t communicated a story-line with each other, we have just run off with the last line of the previous submission to write our own submission and move the story forward.  It’s become an exercise in fleet wordage and spare detail for me and I find I am learning quite a lot about the craft of writing and getting the message across in the shortest possible time.  Please sit back now and enjoy Pat Sweet’s continuation of  her part in The Masked Ball as Parthenope Neroli: 

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Grandmother, what big feet you have . . .

January 12, 2010

I’m one of those readers who has, for all of my life, taken stories at face value.  Which I suppose contributes to my failure as a member of bookclubs: because I was never able or desirous of finding meanings within stories, subtle or otherwise.

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