tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18974608393071805932024-03-19T04:18:16.286-07:00Soul's RoadA Fiction CollectionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-79150831246828293222011-08-08T06:00:00.000-07:002011-08-08T06:00:21.079-07:00Sneak Peak: Ann Keeling's Singing of the Sun<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dpGW-HH_-SQ" width="480"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832393881471703547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-6201105460734188782011-08-05T10:52:00.000-07:002011-08-05T20:00:10.529-07:00Letting your child go<i>Soul's Road: A Fiction Collection </i>has sailed. Watching it progress on Amazon is both terrifying and magnificent. As the editor I spent hours pouring over every page, every sentence, every indentation and period. I was warned by older editors, those wizened creatures with hard eyes and gray streaks. They told me that there will always be flaws. Always be misspellings you didn't catch, missing bits of punctuation or ghosts of former revisions clinging to the end of a word or sentence. I disagreed, politely at first, staunchly later on. I would be different, I would release something that shone, where no word was left unpolished. The old timers elbowed each other and said, "Izzat sooo?"<br />
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It wasn't so. When <i>Soul's Road</i> was ready to submit to Amazon, I hovered over that final button, sweat slicking my forehead, and I waited. Perhaps I was waiting for something divine, a light shining or a beautiful chorus or perhaps it was just fear that kept my finger from hitting that last key. My wife sat beside me and after a moment she turned, studying her husband. We waited.<br />
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When I finally hit the button, I remember feeling ill. What if I just let this magnificent collection of stories go out into the wild, disheveled, unprepared, punctuation wild with disregard? I immediately imagined myself pushing an orphan into the mouth of an alleyway, watching it stumble, fall.<br />
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The truth is a bit different. The old timers were right. There are flaws, always will be. I have already given myself a headache cataloging all the little things I wish I could change. But there is something more. Something I think the old timers saved out, wanted to let me find for myself. Sure there are things I would change but looking at <i>Soul's Road </i>in its final state, I see something other than the dirty orphan I imagined. I see a beautiful collection of stories that have taken me down one hell of a road. I am more than proud to be the editor for <i>Soul's Road</i>, more than proud to have watched this book grow from an idea into a brilliant demonstration of these writers' talents.<br />
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So I will hold my breath every time I see a foible but I know more now. I may not be an old timer, may not have edited enough to know better, but I do know that this collection of stories is something special, something profound. I am glad to have been a part of it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-41788323452037564832011-08-03T08:00:00.000-07:002011-08-03T08:00:18.521-07:00Sneak Peak: Peter McMinn's Sanctum<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fLqAqWDcC_U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832393881471703547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-22189254506363560372011-08-01T20:49:00.000-07:002011-08-01T20:51:14.107-07:00Sneak Peak - World in a Sentence StoriesI like to keep several projects going at once, and one that has been on the back burner for a year or so is a collection of short stories, inspired by David Foster Wallace, all of which are composed of a single sentence. This is the first in the collection. I hope you enjoy it.<div><br /></div><div><p class="Body1" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:6.0in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Helvetica">The Lamentable Kismet of D’arcy Montag<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Body1" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:6.0in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:6.0in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica">The Collins College of Advanced Physics and Quantum Mechanics (Redmond, Washington, not far from where Microsoft had erected their first campus during the personal computing boom of the early nineties, and only five kilometers north-northwest of where the Novell Robotics Corporation had begun construction of the Prometheus Orbital Elevator in the summer of 2016,) machine shop was "burning the midnight oils," as the phrase went, as a veritable parade of screaming echoes, warped colors and cacophonous voices as a string of maudlin cats, gilded dogs, unruly letters, punkish numbers, ersatz kanji (both Japanese and Chinese,) and three highly articulate pizzas all vied for viewing space in the eyes of one D'arcy Montag, student of the College of Advanced Physics and Quantum Mechanics (though due to a peculiar genetic condition, she was not so much a student as a teacher disguised as a student, and if one were to dig further, her knowledge of mathematics, science, quantum physics, mechanics, robotics, cybernetics, viral engineering and coffee brewing went far beyond what any ordinary professor might have to offer a class, even at the most prestigious of universities,) who was referred to by her classmates as "Skitz," as in "schizophrenic," (but misspelled due to the increase in usage of social networking tools which encouraged poor grammar as they connected people, and an increasingly wider gap between the grammatically correct haves and have-nots,) in order to gain the favor of her conscious mind, if only for a moment, so that they might take the opportunity to whisper sweet nothings in her ear, such as the answers to multiple-choice exams yet taken, the possible merits of immolating various political figures, offers of sexual coupling and endless quantum formulae which would make a mockery of the strongest intellects in the field, and had already, upon discussion with D'arcy, forced two such experts (a Mr. Richard Bloomquist of Collins College and a Miss Rachel Truberitz of nearby Bellevue University) to commit ritual suicide in a manner befitting disgraced theoretical physics professors (Bloomquist was reported by a local newspaper to have hung himself from an eye-washing station in a chemical laboratory, while Doctor Truberitz, for those in the know, was rumored to have hired a male prostitute and engaged in sexual intercourse, during which she began to cut herself with a shaving razor, and severed her femoral artery in a fit of bloody ecstasy, unfortunately bleeding out before she achieved climax,)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>tried her best, insomuch as was possible, considering the noise of it all, to busy herself with the tasks required to effect a repair of her particle accelerator, which had been damaged earlier in the week when D'arcy, in a self-described "blackout time" or indeterminate length and composition (as no one else was around to witness the episode in question,) caused her to initiate her experiment in particle acceleration, atomic recombination and molecular engineering without supervision, assistants or indeed any safety precautions of any kind, the result of which was both a) an experiment that, performed on a cubic centimeter of neodinium with a mass of approximately .72 kilograms, was successfully recombined, its component parts realigned and added to, creating a new element of approximately the same size (with roughly .018 cubic centimeters lost to impurities in the neodinium) which sported a new mass of nearly 720,000 kilograms, and upon attaining this fantastic new mass, promptly crashed through the holding apparatus, ten centimeters of cement flooring, two sub-basements, one boiler, one janitor's plastic mop bucket and the accompanying six cubic liters of dirty water, and eventually landed in the remains of a World War 2-era bunker that had remained hidden and secret under the college grounds ever since the Herakles Viral Research Program was cancelled by<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>President Truman in late 1945, deemed unethical and unnecessary in light of the victory in Europe and the deployment of the atomic bomb in the Pacific theatre, (the facility was mothballed, ostensibly for a reopening of the Herakles Program at a later date, but lack of funding, increasing pressure from human rights elements in the government's black operations branch and an increasing body of research collected from British and French experiments during the war pointed to the cost-prohibitive nature of the program, and it was eventually terminated, the bunkers containing the research buried under a landfill and eventually under the machine shop of Collins College of Advanced Physics and Quantum Mechanics, leaving the research undisturbed for the better part of eighty years until it was damaged in D'arcy's unauthorized excursion into uncharted scientific waters, further results of which included roughly two hundred thousand dollars in damages, plus incidental losses of various tools, raw materials and one lab cat that was to be used for hearing loss experiments by the adjacent Collins College of Auditory Wellness, and had for many months been affectionately referred to as "Oscar the Audible Stimulus-Comprehending Cat," but would thereafter be referred to, with mixed feelings of anger, regret and unadulterated rage, as "Oscar the Unlucky," insomuch as the Auditory Wellness students cared to remember the untimely death of Oscar, rather than his life which, up until its end, had been rather fruitful, and had included: two kittens, seventeen couplings with other cats, one successful fight for a particularly vivacious house tabby and, most recently and finally, one near-death experience with a Firestone tire, size B-16, mounted on the front driver's side of a white Ford F-150, which happened to belong to the dean of the College of Auditory Wellness, hence Oscar's rescue from "stray" status to "Laboratory Subject" and "Mascot" status in the summer of 2012, where after Oscar took part in no less than sixty experiments involving hearing loss and possible genetic, cybernetic and intelli-viral methods of curing chronic auditory dysfunction (commonly referred to as "hearing loss") in adults of all ages, most of which had reached satisfactory conclusions, granting Oscar a decidedly austere reputation among Auditory Wellness students, who took his positive responses as a good omen, of course, until the day of the explosion, after which, the reputation of D'arcy Montag and indeed the entire College of Advanced Physics and Quantum Mechanics was lowered considerably, both by students of the Auditory Wellness program and by fellow students of the CAPQM, who had lost a small fortune's worth of investments in personal projects, including, but not limited to: one mechanical arm, slated to become a replacement for static prosthetics, one hydraulic-powered exoskeleton, ready to receive armor mountings, weapon hard points and perform a demonstration for a pre-greased panel of military officials and defense contractors, and one bag of Northern California Sensamea, with a street value of approximately two thousand dollars.</span></p> <p class="Body1" style="tab-stops:6.0in"><o:p> </o:p></p></div>Nate Changhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16498246330584136781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-67304511424390002312011-08-01T00:21:00.000-07:002011-08-01T00:22:16.040-07:00Blogger and I are like BFFs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: 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I've had the pleasure of having a Blogger blog since the days people were still scratching their heads wondering what a blog was. I remember the original layouts, how it was its own language.<br />
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Over the years, I have learned to master that language. So when I was asked to help out with the Soul's Road blog, I felt I was up to the challenge.<br />
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Sprucing up this blog was like my final exam.<br />
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Why final exam? Well, I'm in the final semester of my Goddard experience, have a full time job, and on any given day I have little pieces of life-drama stacked up on my plate as high as Mount Rainier. That means this bad boy had to come together in the free minutes over a weekend. So quick execution was essential.<br />
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So here it is. The final exam. The quick weekend execution. I've tried to arrange our Internet home with some style, some grace, and some pretty pictures.<br />
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This isn't the complete end. I have some more thoughts I want to execute. But, this is it for now. Hope you enjoy it! And if there is anything we've missed, leave us a comment on this post and we will fix it.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832393881471703547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-83882371515118202572011-07-29T14:58:00.000-07:002011-07-29T14:58:15.040-07:00Changes, they are coming.Hello everyone!<br />
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As we inch closer to the release of Soul's Road, we'll be tweaking the site over the next couple of days. It may seem like a big mess for a bit but there is a method to the madness. (Isn't there always?)<br />
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All this to beg our faithful readers for their patience. We promise, it will be worth the wait.<br />
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Thanks in advance! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832393881471703547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-21769987862056340392011-07-25T12:42:00.000-07:002011-07-25T12:42:22.817-07:00Readings from Soul's RoadWith the redesign moving at glacier pace, I thought I would release a treat today. Please glance to your right and find a lovely reading from Ann Keeling's <i>Singing of the Sun</i>. I will be adding additional readings in the coming weeks. Next up is a sample from Peter McMinn's, <i>Sanctum.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-21089136765786016202011-07-21T14:47:00.000-07:002011-07-21T14:47:39.352-07:00The Golden Egg: A Symbol of Faith<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I will tell you the truth as I remember it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Ellen was returning from the north beach one morning at dawn as I approached Point Wilson Lighthouse. In the year and a half I’d known her, we’d met many times near here—she a dedicated runner and me seeking in the waves a few moments of quiet during the Goddard residencies. Most mornings she smiled but we didn’t talk so as not to break my reverie or her stride. I was always glad to see her out there—a kindred spirit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">That morning—were we on the large rocks where the Sound becomes the Strait or on the curved stretch where Whidbey blends with the rest of the San Juans?—she stopped and placed something cool and smooth against my palm. She said to me, “This is your novel—a golden egg.” I opened my fingers to see an ovoid golden stone. It must have been her last residency or graduation. I would have been a G3 or G4—full of a book that hadn’t yet found its form. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I thanked her and slipped the stone into my purse. During the remaining days of the residency, my fingers brushed against that stone and one day I even sat atop the bunkers cupping it and feeling the faith it took to call my novel a golden egg.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Throughout the semester I carried that stone in my purse as I gestated my novel and in the days, after I graduated it sat on my desk while I revised. Once the book was hatched, the stone’s presence on my desk reminded me that someone else believed in my work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I don’t know whether Ellen had ever been given a similar stone or how many others she had given, but I continued her tradition. I have many friends who are writers and I believe in each of their work in an individual way, but I have only given two golden eggs. I meant to give another this weekend, but it slipped my mind in all the graduation excitement. I will never know what became of the rocks themselves, but I hope the gift of faith that accompanied them lives on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The golden egg is a simple stone, but it reminds me of how simple the most meaningful gifts we can give each other are. Take a moment today to pass on a golden egg, even if it’s virtual, to someone you believe in. You have no idea how long it could sustain someone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">These days I carry in my purse a piece of pink quartz I picked out for myself for a new project, but my heart is filled with the faith of my friends.</span></div>Isla McKettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119985541265369132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-50599721260938827172011-07-16T09:53:00.000-07:002011-07-16T09:53:20.645-07:00EMBRACE THE CHAOS---John Schimmel<div class="MsoNormal">I have been trying for a while now to understand why the feeling I got seeing the cover and table of contents for SOUL’S ROAD was so familiar. And then I recalled: In a former life I was part of a home-grown musical that miraculously landed on Broadway. Our first performance was to be a midnight “gypsy run-through” for all the other Broadway casts. I arrived at the theater that morning and found a pile of new Playbills. My photograph was on the cover, and it literally took my breath away. I had to walk around the block once to stop the tears and then a second time to try to understand why I was so moved, having come to music for a variety of reasons that at no time included a quest for fame. I’d already had a long career in New York. This was not my first time appearing on Broadway, or even my first time in a show I’d helped create. But this was a show I’d worked on with good friends, colleagues whose work I admired and whose outsider journeys to this moment resonated with my own. We’d connected with producers who believed in us and dug in to help turn dream into reality. And there we were, with our photos on the cover of Playbill. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">SOUL’S ROAD is certainly a collaboration with writers whose work I greatly admire. Those I know from the wondrous Goddard College residencies I consider friends. And Cody Luff, our editor and the inspiration for launching this project, has certainly done back-flips to make this real. So when I saw the galleys for the book I was thrilled by the physical proof that we were in fact going to be published and, more importantly, so greatly moved by the fact of being published in the company of this particular group of writers. Whatever the outcome, the journey has been miraculous and for me at least the journey is everything. So this is a maybe too-public thanks to one and all involved in this effort. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Back on that day in 1982 (!!) I returned from my walk and at 10AM we did our first full run-through of the show. Our producers had given us creative control of the production, and at noon we fired their director and put them through twelve hours of hell while we completely re-staged (and therefore re-lit) the entire show. At 11:30 that night we opened the house to everyone then working on Broadway. We literally had people sitting on top of one another in the aisles – the fire department would have closed us down if they’d come inspecting. But they didn’t, and at midnight we got the cue to start the very first run-through of this new version of the show. Our producers were the very picture of controlled hysteria, because Broadway was a land where they lived but we were only visiting . It would be sad and humiliating for us if we fell on our faces in front of this crowd; for them it would be fatal. But when we hit the final note the audience roared to its feet and we knew we’d pulled it off. I tell this story, probably again too publically, as a reminder to Cody who is going through his own version of last-minute hell to make certain everything is just right. Last minute madness seems to be an inevitable part of endeavors like this. Calm would be a sign that everything had gone horribly wrong. The chaos is the good news. Embrace the chaos.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-70066760255396280732011-07-14T08:24:00.000-07:002011-07-14T08:24:57.541-07:00Readings from Soul's RoadThe blog has been a little slow lately, we are contemplating a new design, new features and more stories to add. In a day or two we should have a few sample readings from Soul's Road writers here for you to listen to. Writers reading their own work in a nifty, audio cast. Since this beast so lovingly referred to as the Internet is such a complex animal, the file might take several forms before it chooses its final shape. Keep checking back, these readings are definitely worth listening to.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-83880972797976743922011-07-11T21:55:00.000-07:002011-07-11T21:55:58.405-07:00Dream Walking the Road<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It came to me years ago, pronounced in a dream like </span>second language <span class="Apple-style-span">vocabulary. It turned over and over in mind, syllables tumbling slowly into place. T</span>he setting<span class="Apple-style-span"> I cannot recollect, but t</span><span class="Apple-style-span">he locale was </span>foreign<span class="Apple-style-span">. Maybe </span>I sat crossed-legged in a smoky, gold-laced den, <span class="Apple-style-span">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Microsoft Sans Serif', 'Free Sans', 'Gentium Plus', 'Gentium Basic', Gentium, GentiumAlt, 'DejaVu Sans', 'DejaVu Serif', 'Free Serif', 'TITUS Cyberbit Basic', 'Bitstream Cyberbit', 'Bitstream CyberBase', 'Doulos SIL', Code2000, Code2001; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">āga' </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">tableau </span><span class="Apple-style-span">pulsing</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> the air alongside</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> the beckoning drone of a sitar.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> Maybe not. I do know I got to my feet to receive it: a dream-word hovering </span>opaque, <span class="Apple-style-span">intangible</span><span class="Apple-style-span">; and </span>a rich voice<span class="Apple-style-span">: <i>your path</i>, it said. <i>V</i></span><i>engarahala</i>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Did you mean: <i>vinegar hilal? </i>asks Google? <i>Venkatachala? </i>offers Wikipedia. I've not fully investigated the permutations, but of our esteemed body of knowledge I have deduced that damn little supports my unique understanding of the word. I was either bestowed this word or in some way I chose it. Whatever the origin, the passive/active nature of v<i>engarahala</i> finds me pondering its significance today, nearly two decades later.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Life is different, now. And now. In June of 2010 I stopped consuming alcohol, and a month later I graduated with my Goddard MFA: two consecutive steps away from a passive condition into an active one. Since then, the energy I'd been channeling into a manuscript far too small for its weight has found new direction in short stories such as "Sanctum," graciously included in <i>Soul's Road</i><i>.</i> Stories arising or informed by dreams. And as they come forward, so the road unrolls.* My late father, ragged boy-man, appears on the shoulder of one recent dream road. Scrawled on his board in what must have drained the cartridge of a ballpoint (his last?): <i><b>any-freakin-place</b></i>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So, toward being a better writer, dreaming is a big part of my walk. If I haven't at some point experienced in a dream the emotional current of a story or poem, it won't often have the sea-legs or guts for revision. My characters are my subjects and, as Bob Dylan said of his own, all versions of myself on their own paths, doomed or otherwise.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Something else I've been carrying around a few years: <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antonio_Machado">El camino se hace al andar</a>.</div>Peter McMinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566638598614812510noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-72571140799333218792011-07-10T19:38:00.000-07:002011-07-10T19:38:27.994-07:00While we reorganize: Yet another story--Cody T LuffWe are in the process of organizing the blog, or rather <i>re</i>organizing the blog. Look for changes next week, more stories, more entries, a few surprises. To tide you over and to keep the blog's pulse flickering, I am posting another story. This is from a collection of stories about Montana, please do not reproduce, distribute or copy in any way. Feel free to link. Hope you enjoy and we'll see you soon:<br />
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I wondered how he could see anything.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Darrel got one the other night. Mom had to cook them both breakfast and Dad was all proud.” Darrel was the oldest of Tom’s brothers. He practiced roping by having Tom run around the front yard and snagging him with a lariat around the ankles. Sometimes he’d hog tie Tom and leave him out there until Tom’s mother found him.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“She said she was seventeen. Real blonde, not the drugstore kind. Darrel said he checked.” We were leaning against the sheep pen. I had my thumbs in my belt loops just like Tom. “Mom got all mad. She was going to throw them both out, Darrel and the buckle bunny but Dad told her to just shut the hell up and make some eggs.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We stood awhile, Tom watched sheep, “I bet I get the buckle today, I bet I get it good.” Tom a buckle already. A little pig iron thing that somebody had hammered together in their garage. He’d won it last year, beat out a kid who broke his collar bone after falling head first off his sheep. “Come on.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tom led me to the concession stand, corn dog sticks and beer cans punctuated the mud. We stopped by the propane tank that fed the grill. He pointed, “There she is.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She turned out to be an Indian girl. About twelve, long black braids and a beaded vest. She was selling fry bread with an old lady that was quick with a flyswatter. </div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Who is she?” I asked.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“My buckle bunny.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Is she really?”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yup.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Is she really a buckle bunny?”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“All the girls here are.” Tom said. </div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“ My sisters aren’t.” I said.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How do you know?”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Dad wouldn’t let them go home with nobody. Last week he chased Kari’s boyfriend around the house with his warclub.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Warclub? Your dad aint no Indian.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sometimes.” I said.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Maybe they just sneak out.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Nah uh. Mom would hear.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay. Maybe they aren’t buckle bunnies. Yet.” He wasn’t paying much attention. He watched the Indian girl’s hands for a long time.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’ll be a good buckle.” Tom said and I didn’t know what he meant.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">Right before Tom was scheduled to ride, Darrel showed up. He was tall, slim, Marlboro quality. He offered me a pinch of his chew. He always did, every time he saw me. I only took it once, puked for enough hours to convince me once was enough. He still laughed over it.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“When you gonna ride, Andy?” Darrel asked.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Mom won’t let me.” I said, handing Tom his gloves.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Shit. Never let no woman tell you what to do.” Darrel said.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Dad won’t either.” I said and Darrel just nodded. Darrel and Dad had a run in over me being hog tied. Darrel had been practicing and Tom and I had run around until we got roped. Darrel tied us and left us. I came home a few hours later with a sun burn that turned my whole face purple. Dad had walked over to Tom’s place and talked to Darrel. It wasn’t a nice talk. I didn’t get tied up any more and Darrel started calling my Dad Mr. Hines instead of just Barry.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Darrel walked Tom and me over to the chute, where they tied the riders on. Darrel got a big kick out of watching Tom get settled on his sheep.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You hold on now, don’t let that bugger drag you nowhere.” Darrel laughed, chew in his teeth.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">A cowboy asked Tom is he was ready and Tom nodded, his face bright red, brighter than his neckerchief. A voice over a loud speaker blared away, giving Tom’s win record and making a joke about a future bull rider. The cowboy popped the gate and Darrel kicked the sheep hard. Somebody cussed at him and things started happening all at once. The sheep took off crooked, coming out of the chute at an angle, the crowd in the arena started making that ocean sound crowds make and Tom’s free arm caught the gate post.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I watched that arm turn all the way back, bent straight out, sideways, ending up all the way behind Tom as his sheep veered hard. Tom was tied in tight but the force was just too much and he was pulled off because of his hung up arm. I’d never seen an arm bend like that. I’d done something similar to one of my GI Joes, bending a soldier’s plastic arm back until the joint exploded into fine bits. Tom howled.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Suddenly there were cowboys everywhere, guys jumping over the corral wall, men running in through the gate. I got my hat knocked off as they converged on Tom.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The announcers voice, feedback rotten, blew through the arena. A man in a white hat bent over Tom’s limp arm. Tom was bawling, something I’d never seen before, even when Darrel knocked out Tom’s front tooth the day after New Years.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Don’t worry folks, the Doc is there and Tom Hammond is being looked after. We’ll continue with the sheep riding in a few minutes, why don’t you take the time to visit with the gals at the concession stands? There’s a two for one deal on Tater-Bacon sticks…” The loudspeaker kept on and the Doc put his knee in Tom’s back and pulled real hard. I heard the pop over the announcer’s voice. Tom made a gagging noise.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I didn’t notice Darrel standing next to me. Neither of us had gone over to Tom after his fall. </div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He won’t get that buckle now,” I said. “She won’t be his buckle bunny without no buckle.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What?” Darrel asked, snapping awake liked he’d been somewhere else.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“His buckle bunny. The Indian girl at the fry bread place.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Indian girl?” Darrel said, looking down at me.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Doc carried Tom over, Tom’s arm tied up against his chest. One boot was off and it was in the hands of a guy with a huge mustache, he looked like he was carrying something fragile.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You the brother?” Doc asked. Darrel nodded. “Alright then. Pulled ‘er right out of the socket. Sprained him up pretty good. I don’t know but one of his ribs might be busted. You should take him in for an x-ray.” Doc passed Tom to Darrel and it was like they were handing off a puppet dressed in a brush popper shirt. Darrel didn’t say anything and the Doc didn’t stick around long enough to notice. The guy with the mustache handed me Tom’s boot and patted me on the shoulder.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Your buddy’s pretty tough. He done good.” The guy said, he nodded to Darrel and followed the Doc.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tom was looking at me from his brother’s arms and I held out his boot.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sorry.” I said. Tom took his boot with his uninjured hand and I could see tears through all the mud. “Maybe she’ll be your bunny anyway.” I said.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tom looked at his brother real fast and back at me, “You told him?”</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He did,” Darrel said. “A god damned Indian.” Darrel started walking, carrying Tom like firewood.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No, that’s not…” Tom tried but Darrel interrupted.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’ll talk about it with the old man.” Darrel called his father that. The old man.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No, I’m sorry.” Tom said.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You will be.” Darrel said.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My dad found me outside Tom’s father’s horse trailer. Tom, Darrel and his dad were inside and they were shouting. Dad didn’t say anything but we listened for a long time before he took my hand and we walked toward the concession stands.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Wanna Tatter-Bacon stick?” He asked.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No.” I said. I was scared for Tom. Dad stopped walking and he kneeled down in front of me. His beard was still black and brown then.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You worried?” </div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Why are they so mad at him. He didn’t mean to get hurt.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s not why they’re mad.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Why?”</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dad looked at me for a while before he scooped me up and pitched me under one arm. He talked as he carried me.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Some folks are small. Not short like you, “he jiggle me until I giggled, “they’re small in the head, in the heart. Tom’s dad and his brothers are all like that. Small.” Dad plopped me on my feet and we were in front of the fry bread stand. “Some folks don’t know a good thing from their heels of their boots.” The Indian girl was still there and the old woman too. They looked at Dad and smiled. Dad said something in Crow, and the old lady waved her flyswatter at him, smiling. He turned to me, “This is Katy Long Hair and her Grandma, Mary. She’s Robert’s niece.”</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Robert was Dad’s friend from when he lived on Crow Agency, back before he married my Mom. Robert would go riding with Dad sometimes and he’d made me a bow out of willow that I could take along when I walked by the river with my folks </div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hi.” Katy said, and handed me a piece of fry bread in a little cardboard boat.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hi,” I said and I was glad that Tom didn’t win the buckle. “Do you like cowboys?” I said.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Are you a cowboy?” She asked.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sometimes.” I said</div><div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Then I like ‘em sometimes.” She said and smiled.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-776188513175379192011-07-08T08:46:00.000-07:002011-07-08T08:46:08.648-07:00What is your Soul's Road?The writers of Soul's Road explored their own Muse. What is yours? What inspires you or has inspired you? Tell us in the comments section, make it a story, a memory, an anecdote or just a sentence or two. The path to the Muse is one we either struggle to find or one that overtakes us. Let us know!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-11238743072490959682011-07-06T19:08:00.000-07:002011-07-06T19:08:19.521-07:00A Story----Cody T LuffI thought I would post a story tonight, something to put a reader in the mood to check out Soul's Road when she (yes, the book is a she) makes it out into this world. The following is a sample from a larger work, please do not reproduce, distribute, copy or annotate. If you would like to link, that is fine by me. The story has a few names, from Hard Country to Hanna's Girls, for tonight, it's just Hanna.<br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> Hanna </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> by </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> Cody T Luff </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> She hung on to pretty until the end. Long hair pulling down her back. Braids sometimes, curls breaking ranks, pushing through. Thin fingers, wrists, even past fifty her hands spoke music. I remember her under the good quilt, throat naked of flesh, cancer cutting curves to angles. I held her hand. Her thumb against my knuckles. She looked at me a long time before she said, “We didn’t do this much, did we.” I remember saying no, we didn’t. I remember getting up, making coffee. I remember wishing her to sleep.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Funeral is not for the dead. My daughters taught me that. They wanted their mother laid to rest in the best way. I told them what Hanna wanted and they nodded and touched my hands. Hanna didn’t want to be planted, grow a stone with her name, didn’t want grand kids chuffed up in black walking by a “here I was and now I’m not” headstone. She wanted the fire. We both did. That’s what we started with and that’s how we wanted to end. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">They got her a coffin, all three girls agreed. Brass, mahogany. Big enough to crush our bed. She’d be lost in there, inside that padding. In the dark. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When she was young she could sing in German. Her mother knew enough to pass it down. I’d stand outside the bathroom and listen to her. She couldn’t sing in front of anybody. Just in the bathroom, water running in the tub. She’d sing and I would hold my breath to hear every word, dizzy enough by the time the spigot stopped and I imagined her legs slipping into that deep heat. I never told her and she pretended not to know. She’d come out, towel around her hair, bathrobe hand-me-down striped in the way everything was striped back then. Have a good bath? She’d nod, take the towel off and her hair would come down like chocolate thread.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The girls wanted a preacher man. They knew my feelings on that. No man can earn his bread by telling another man what to do. But they found God anyway, one through her husband and the others through their sister. Their father might be a lost cause but their mother needed a guarantee. I tried to tell them if Hanna didn’t make it to heaven, who would? Preacher cost three hundred. The girls wanted to pay but they don’t understand, she was my Hanna.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">She wasn’t easy. Me neither. I won’t say like drew like because the old folks know that isn’t true. You find your opposite, at least in some way. Sometimes you’re the key sometimes the hole. There were things she wanted that I didn’t have. Things I gave that she didn’t take. We fought. Wouldn’t have lasted if we didn’t. I’m not saying there weren’t mistakes. You get scars as you go but it’s the big scars that show how tough you are.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">They didn’t want to sell anything. Rented a storage unit. Fed it everything that was Hanna’s. The old rocking chair, the broken sewing machine, the tether ball set that spent one day up before I backed into it with the old Jeep. Her books too. Took everyone of them. They took Hanna’s Bible too. I wonder which one got to it? For the pictures, the letters. All those things that Hanna slipped inside were talismans. Memories. I thought about it some. Took a walk, down the way Hanna would go when she was mad at me and needed trees. I walked and I tried to find if there was anything in there that I might want back. If there was a way I could ask for it back. The girls loved their mother and I am sure they love their father too but the providence of memories is feminine. Something I had no handles to hold to. When I got back, Hanna’s trees still thick on my skin, I sat in my chair and looked at the space she left in the world.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-10810164902888796662011-07-03T07:22:00.000-07:002011-07-03T07:22:25.406-07:00Winning Goodreads<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Part of the assignment for <em>Soul’s Road</em> is for all of us writers to find a way to let the world know about this collection. We have a self-appointed marketing department of three who are feeding ideas to the group. One thing I had never thought of was joining <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>. Icess Fernandez got <em>Soul’s Road</em> set up there (find us and rate us <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11906071-soul-s-road">here</a>). The next step was for each of us to set up an author profile.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I spend an embarrassing amount of time each week on social media. I tell myself it’s my job because I am a communications coordinator, but really, I brought social media to my job because it was something I was doing anyway. I did not think I needed another site to visit (just as I never thought I would blog, but here is my third post in two weeks). So I was a little hesitant to sign up for <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>, but as one of the self-appointed marketing experts, I thought I should set a good example. I had no idea what I was in for.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a> (in case you don’t know) is a site built entirely for readers where you can rate, share, and recommend books to other readers. Talking about books is one of my very favorite things in life, as anyone who’s been pinned down in a fireside chat with me can attest. But I read so much and socialize so little, that I haven’t been filling this need. Sure I send a friend an email about a book or post about it on facebook, but somewhere between posts about my hangnail and my lunch, the important conversations about books get lost. Which means I was hooked on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a> the moment I signed in.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The first day I was a member I filled in, rated, and reviewed all the books I had read over the last week. I was at work and didn’t have access to my bookshelves, but you better believe I was excited to get home. I think I ended the day with nine books on my “shelf” and a few friends <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a> helped me find from my email account. Things didn’t get really crazy until the next morning.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I am an early riser and often fitful first thing. I go on the internet or putter around the house—sometimes I even walk the dog—anything to put my mind in a more restful place where I can read and write. Day two of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a> gave me the perfect task. I sat down in my office and started inputting books I have in my shelves. My bookshelves are a special place—crowded and double-stacked with more books piled on top—but every book in those shelves is one I have read and liked (or am keeping for future study). </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIAuPzW_CA8NjP2fOVgqaQ8XTpF9prwKc5Oe-ZkcZUGQJJU_UDq8J2x1mABvvvPYdZDr7PttGhDbiG8cvaJ7q_793mM1_lDlm9QqboAvG5OHPsB2LsiNuuKxgueuMV5cSkMO3zo8U0H52/s1600/DSCN0831.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIAuPzW_CA8NjP2fOVgqaQ8XTpF9prwKc5Oe-ZkcZUGQJJU_UDq8J2x1mABvvvPYdZDr7PttGhDbiG8cvaJ7q_793mM1_lDlm9QqboAvG5OHPsB2LsiNuuKxgueuMV5cSkMO3zo8U0H52/s320/DSCN0831.JPG" width="240px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So there I was at some ungodly hour of the morning typing all of my books into the internet. But the goal of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a> isn’t just to type your books in, you get to rate them too. As a fast reader, I am not always the best at remembering the books I’ve read, so having them in front of me was a great advantage and knowing that I had read them (they had, after all, made the shelf) helped too. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It started out rather easily. I input the books stacked horizontally on top of other books—those were the ones I had read most recently and it was easy to rate them. Then I noticed my ratings were skewing high, but I told myself it was okay because I was pulling from a stack of books I had kept. No one was going to judge me on my ratings, right? Things started getting more difficult when I reached the vertical books—some of which I haven’t read in years. If it sat in the shelf, I gave it at least a three unless I knew I kept it for another reason. The exercise even gave me a chance to look at some books and wonder why they were still there (I try to purge often) if I couldn’t remember them. Things got really difficult when I started rating books by friends. Honesty is the best policy, but I also tend to be harsher on people I know and love in some perverse attempt to help them better themselves. But these ratings are important, right? Soul’s Road is rated five stars at this writing because, well, our friends have been rating it. But who else is going to rate a bunch of unknowns. Who else has access to the manuscript in advance of the release…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Throughout the day I gave my partner updates on my progress. At 391, it was cute, I had surpassed one of my friends who seemed to commit to the endeavor. At 460, as I had taken the laptop to the living room so I could rate while I was talking with him, I felt a twinge of chagrin at misplaced priorities. In the evening as I furiously typed in my 700<sup>th</sup> rating, he teased me about trying to “win” <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>. He was right. I had taken a social site where people casually input their favorite books, and I had input everything I ever remembered reading. There were rules, of course, I only put in my very favorite childhood books and who could even remember the titles (let alone rate) the armloads of horror novels I used to collect during the summer, but I may have taken things a bit far.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZw8eq48ps2xwnzr0p57oE5gJGq2uPjW-_YQR8bx7m95dCCuUiRsxtmD7MEFrNDkd40wqUonR7BbMhWS88RsrEMY1HUpw0bkTAYflnFpqAWMwMUwXZNSGDD5QfaQWYLXriGD2A6X42VEPC/s1600/DSCN0835.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZw8eq48ps2xwnzr0p57oE5gJGq2uPjW-_YQR8bx7m95dCCuUiRsxtmD7MEFrNDkd40wqUonR7BbMhWS88RsrEMY1HUpw0bkTAYflnFpqAWMwMUwXZNSGDD5QfaQWYLXriGD2A6X42VEPC/s320/DSCN0835.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This morning I am trying to channel my competitive nature elsewhere. I’m using <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a> to compare reading compatibility with my friends (which is also a chance to see books I may have missed adding to my shelf). I’m writing this blog. I’m wondering where in the 706 books I’ve rated and the 3,458 movies we’ve rated on Netflix I even have time to get teased by my partner. I may even take the dog for a walk. But if you think you can beat my tally or you want to see how compatible we are as reading buddies, find me and friend me <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/isla_mcketta">here</a>. I’ll be adding books as I remember them and as I read new ones. I will even write reviews and fill in my bio and interests. And maybe, just maybe, I will find that life off of the internet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMzm01gWq003dF53ukgbVZy_KyKSzini2eJ1i0gw32AWJToTsmyjJGDLjaNLcwfELSPQOFpDTJT3JW_m3Lyia-Q0a6mkIY7LQt7qTjlNwm3Z7wJSjx_rNfEAfodBklM-bT7Ef02O7G4h5/s1600/DSCN0836.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMzm01gWq003dF53ukgbVZy_KyKSzini2eJ1i0gw32AWJToTsmyjJGDLjaNLcwfELSPQOFpDTJT3JW_m3Lyia-Q0a6mkIY7LQt7qTjlNwm3Z7wJSjx_rNfEAfodBklM-bT7Ef02O7G4h5/s320/DSCN0836.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div>Isla McKettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119985541265369132noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-42308627986650375512011-07-01T12:27:00.000-07:002011-07-01T12:31:35.093-07:00Phil Paddock on a Soul's Road<p class="MsoNormal">Ah Summer. Having declined to teach summer school, I looked forward to nothing but relaxation.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Do you recall Gatsby’s little diary that listed his “self-improvement” schedule?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He probably had chin ups, and elocution on there.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Well that’s the kind of the thing I do all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Old school with the pen and paper.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The handwriting has to look decent too.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There’s a certain feel I have to have in my hand and fingers as the ink marks the page.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Otherwise I crumple it and start over making my calendars, my lists of long term and short term gotta do’s.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’m telling you, that’s what I do.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s hard to admit.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Released into the great open space of a teacher’s vacation and I start making up lists of what I have to accomplish.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s a little strange, because I don’t remember where or when I picked up the habit.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Looking for an answer, I glanced back over my shoulder, down the road my soul has travelled.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I saw my 20 year old self.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Nope, definitely wasn’t making those lists at age 20.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Oh to be 20.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So here’s the thing; as summer began I could hardly sleep with so many plans that needed to be written down in perfect form with a pen upon a piece of paper.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>One of the items on the list was to improve my cardiovascular condition, primarily by running.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You know, establish a routine.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Yes, yes, so many plans.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Within days, my wife and I traveled to New York, my first visit ever to the Empire State.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In New York, the running was hit or miss.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But when we got out to the far shores of Long Island, the running part of the plan became more promising.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It was our good fortune to stay near a seemingly endless stretch of sand between Montauk and South Hampton.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>While staying there I researched my family’s genealogical history.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My father’s side traces back not to the Port of New York, where so many entered from Europe, but to the Plymouth settlement in the 1600’s.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>From there, many of them worked the sea along Cape Cod.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>On our final morning before flying home to California, my wife and I took a final walk along the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We talked and stooped down to examine mermaid’s purses, scallop shells and horseshoe crab casks.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All of a sudden I noticed how much time had passed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If I didn’t take off running back to our rendezvous point, we’d cause our gracious hostess to wait for us and possibly complicate our journey home.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So I took off and soon, propelled by a fear of missing the driver and the opportunity to accomplish my Gatsby task, I entered into a runner’s trance.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I, renowned among my peers for an excellent sense of time and place, ran right past the intended beach access.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And then some.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Unknowingly a half mile past, I sought directions and received bad information that took me even farther East.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Running on, I couldn’t believe that I should continue in that direction.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I turned back, then doubted myself and reversed again.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sand and dunes and seemingly the same houses.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What the hell.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’d been running for over an hour in soft sand.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My hamstring had begun to cramp.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The sun was high, hot and as relentless as the wristwatch on my arm that ticked away the minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>On the verge of panic, I stopped to let something wash over me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Something of the Atlantic, something of my ancestral past conspiring to keep me there along the far Eastern shore on the very first time I’d stepped upon it, like an old fisherman’s net tangling my legs. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Those old whaler souls sounding off in every shore break, laughing that they’d fixed me such a puzzle.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I chuckled too as I took my last look over the sea, then turned and found someone with a cell phone to make a call.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Holding it to my cheek, it was as though I no longer spoke the same language.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>Nate Changhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16498246330584136781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-71485793177921202312011-06-29T23:45:00.000-07:002011-06-30T00:45:10.167-07:00Natasha Oliver on Blogging and Soul's RoadI might as well be honest. I'm not very good with blogs. Actually, I suck at them. They remind me of diaries, only digital, and purposely impersonal. (I suck at diaries too.) I find that most blogs have nothing to say, or at least nothing to say that interests me. Out of hundreds of posts, I usually find one that's relevant or at minimum, mildly entertaining.<div><br /></div><div>Oh, I've tried blogging. I've had about two or three blogs in the last five years. There was the current events response blog, but that got old really quickly. (I didn't realize just how repetitive the news was until I started to blog about it. It's ridiculous how many Ethic Committee senators sleep with prostitutes or have long-standing affairs and hidden families. And every time I turn around, someone is blowing someone else up, another someone is using children on the front lines to further his agenda, and my favorite: "American Idol is the number one TV show across America! Join us at 9, live, to find out why.")</div><div><br /></div><div>Then there was the blog about my novel's characters. That was fun, but... pointless if I'm honest. I mean, no one read it--why would they, my novel was a work-in-progress, and let's face it, I'm still a nobody in the writing world.</div><div><br /></div><div>And finally there was the blog about my pregnancy. I get the chills just thinking about it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've followed countless blogs. Mostly literary agents who have a knack for making you think that if you just follow their blog, you'll somehow one-up the competition. The truth of the matter is, they're marketing themselves, and we writers fall for it every time. I mean, if I spend my days reading these blogs, when will I have the time to actually write anything? My experience with agents' blogs is that the only thing you'll find useful in them (that you can't find on the net at-large) is how many aspiring authors they've rejected in a given week. Because they admit their work is temperamental and, in addition to good writing, luck has a huge part to play. (Being previously published and/or having a contact doesn't hurt either.)</div><div><br /></div><div>So, when I found out that we (Soul's Road) were doing a blog, I cringed--just a little. Luckily, Icess (<a href="http://www.writingtoinsanity.com/2011/06/down-souls-road.html">writingtoinsanity</a>) gave us a prompt to follow to help "non-bloggers" like me find something to write about.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tax Collector</i></div><div><br /></div><div>My short story, "Tax Collector" is about two people who are simply going through the motions of life, trying to make it as least painful as possible. It was inspired by reading a lot of Raymond Carver. His stories felt as if they would go absolutely nowhere (almost a circular feeling to them), but you enjoyed them nonetheless because the characters were real. That's where I decided to start: characters.</div><div><br /></div><div>Alba came to me pretty quickly. I couldn't pin down her personality at first, so I decided to give them all to her. She doesn't have multiple personality disorder, she is just following her instincts and "trying on" new personalities when she grows tired of the old ones.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mort and I had a different kind of relationship. We didn't "hit it off" right away. I knew he was older, but it took a while for me to "settle" into him. He was from a different generation, the generation where his parents went through segregated schooling, and so he grew up not trusting "the man", but "the man" was the only employer that Blacks could readily find. I wanted to show that bit of history that was at odds with itself, but not dwell on it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I knew early on that I was going to poke at the "lack of" separation of church and state, and given that Alba and Mort are atheist and agnostic, respectively, I knew I needed a balance. Catherine (with a "C") was the character I wanted to use to make fun of religion, and so I needed her to go "jihad" on the secular world, and the more I wrote her, the more she took form. </div><div><br /></div><div>All my characters have a screw loose, and I like them that way. My comfort zone is fantasy or sci fi, and so I pushed myself to stay within the realm of reality (*cough*) and focused on the characters and less on the world around them.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think what the authors of Soul's Road have done is amazing. I've had the privilege of reading all the stories, and I'm honored to have mine be among them.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13680660134115587589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-40927038280867369392011-06-29T18:26:00.000-07:002011-06-29T18:26:57.914-07:00Deborah Staley on Soul's RoadWhen Cody Luff invited me to be a part of <i>Soul's Road</i>, then untitled, I was so honored. Also invited were a number of amazing writers I admire who had all been through the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing Program. I really wanted to be involved, but my challenge was the fact that I was still a student and in my final semester at Goddard. I had a huge amount of work to do to finish and graduate on time. If Cody had not been so generous to work with me on deadlines, I could not have done it. <br />
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</div><div>My contribution to <i>Soul's Road </i>is titled "That Girl." This story is a bit of a departure for me. I am multi-published in novel-length romance and romantic short stories. That said, I had been wanting to write something different. Something "literary" just to see if I could. "That Girl" is creative non-fiction/memoir. It's about a young girl who struggles through illness as a child and then depression as an adult. When I wrote this story, it felt like I was laying my soul bare. It was painful, and I shed more than a few tears. I thought more than once that I couldn't finish the story. I even considered pulling out of the project because I just didn't know if I could publish this story--if I ever finished it. But deep down, I knew that finishing this story was important for me, and that maybe it just might be important for someone out there who may read it. I stayed with this story and finished it to offer readers hope. I am a firm believer that determination and perseverance are key ingredients for fulfilling your purpose in life. In doing so, you might just accomplish something extraordinary despite the struggles and trials. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Writing allows my soul sing through the darkness of depression. Share your thoughts and advice on the blog today about what makes your soul sing through adversity. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-12280690753012259882011-06-28T11:13:00.000-07:002011-06-28T11:22:36.755-07:00Where Do the Ideas Come From?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I’ve written from dreams and from nightmares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been inspired by books and newspapers and images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes stories come from nowhere at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing from life is most complicated for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know infinitely more than I can convey about the characters in my life, the myriad of threads don’t always distill well into themes, and sometimes I am too deep inside of my life to see the story clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose that’s why when it comes to writing, I’ve had the most success taking bits of real life, blending them with imagination, and turning them into fiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">My novella, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murmurs of the River</i>, is the story of Magda in Post-Cold War Poland as she searches for the truth about what happened to her mother after her arrest by the secret police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When giving this elevator pitch about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murmurs of the River</i>, people always want to know where the story came from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am I Polish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was my mother arrested?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No and no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am the same age as Magda and I lived in Poland during 1994 and 1995, the time the book is set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some ways I have a unique perspective on Poland because (despite some great friends) I was an outsider there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This enabled me to write the grocery store scene you can read at <a href="http://www.translationnexus.com/">http://www.translationnexus.com/</a>, but I didn’t grow up in Poland and don’t pretend to know everything there is to know about being Polish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Regarding the truth of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murmurs of the River</i>—I hope people who recognize pieces of themselves are flattered. The picture above is of my real skater friends, but the novella is not a memoir and I don’t want it to be one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a reader, I always want the story I’m reading to be true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find myself Googling characters looking for more details, but ultimately, I don’t want these stories to be factual because it is the perfection of the books that makes the characters seem true and real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside that world, they would be someone else and part of the story I so loved would be lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our time is preoccupied with truth in memoir when perhaps we should be talking about facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all know the examples and I won’t rehash them here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I will say is that the best I can hope for is in changing the facts in their memoirs, those writers were trying to speak to the greater truth of their stories.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I cannot tell the story of the Polish experience, it is not mine to tell, but I can tell the story of my fictional character as well as possible and maybe even get close to the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only hope <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murmurs of the River</i> (and the selection that appears in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soul’s Road</i>) will pique your curiosity enough about Poland and the Post-Cold War era to ask questions and to want to learn more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can hope the book will make you less lonely or inspire you to reach out to someone in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can hope you will spend an afternoon simply enjoying the writing I’ve put years into.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Stories come from wherever they damned well please.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a storyteller, I consider myself lucky to grasp whatever ethereal bits I can before they evaporate and use them to seek out the truth of human experience using whatever details I have to create.</div>Isla McKettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119985541265369132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-19157443333112450292011-06-26T23:39:00.000-07:002011-06-26T23:40:31.684-07:00ON WRANGLING WRITERS ON SOUL’S ROAD - by John Schimmel<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The writers represented in this collection are all different. The fact that we are all traveling down “Soul’s Road” should in no way imply that we have lots in common beyond our need to journey down it. World views, perception of character, use of language and differing rhythms define us and vary as much as one might expect in any given population. A Goddard College dining table might host a Special Forces vet, a Tarot card reader, a Christmas tree farmer, a Hollywood screenwriter, a dancer, and an enraged poet. Writers all with souls in search of their roads, but as different as different can be. I suspect this never occurred to our dedicated, generous and gifted editor Cody Luff when he agreed to forego publishing in this collection his own profoundly beautiful writing in favor of acting as our editor. His input has been enormously helpful but has come, I suspect, between bouts of having to deal with all these differences and the varied, strongly held opinions they generate in the form of well-crafted missives from cantankerous artists. So as the book comes together and we near publication, as we gaze at the finally approved cover art and at our own work that has so benefited from Cody’s touch, I want to take a moment to express our gratitude, to celebrate and thank him for his extraordinary kindness, talent and effort on our behalf. It has been a wonderful journey. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><u></u> </p></span>Nate Changhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16498246330584136781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-38726942300485280912011-06-26T23:32:00.000-07:002011-06-26T23:32:50.829-07:00On Characters---Cody Luff<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">I once was asked how a writer builds a character. The word “build” threw me. I had never considered my characters to be constructed. It’s a great image. Boards and nails, a mad inventor charging the latest invention with strange energies. The truth is, most of my characters have very little to do with my conscious thought. I don’t build them. I don’t even know they exist until they ambush me.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One of my favorite characters came from a photograph. An old photo, curled edges, dated in blue pen on the reverse. The color was washed away, time making shadows sepia. The photo was of my father, smiling, rifle in hand. A barbed wire fence ran behind, slanting away into sage and sand. I kept seeing a man there, not my father, not a relation but an old rancher, one hand holding the fence taut. How do you see someone that isn’t in the photo? Good question. I’m not sure I can answer that but I’ll give it a try.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A good character shows up like a surprise visit from distant relatives. It’s not easy at first, you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have to share everything with that character. They follow you into the bathroom, stand behind you in the shower and frequently take up most of the couch. They talk too. All the time. They tell you their story, every piece of minutia, every nuance and annoyance. When you try to ask questions, they ignore you; when you try to argue, they pout or hide or worse still, they leave. It sounds like a process that could be cured with some medication or a drive through at the local psych office. But it isn’t so simple. Writers live that way, listening, recording, remembering. When characters show up, we know we have something and when they leave, we beg for them to come back.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Lowe, my old rancher, had a story to tell me about his brother, newly returned from Vietnam. Lowe’s brother sends for his daughter, a half Vietnamese girl who is now consigned to life in rural Montana in the early 70s. It wasn’t a happy story but Lowe needed to tell it and I needed to write it for him. So why did Lowe show up in the photo? I suppose we could say it was something subconscious, a memory or a dream. I also suppose we could step into the metaphysical and say it has something to do with channeling or ESP. I don’t know. I don’t know and that is fine with me. I like finding characters waiting for me in grocery stores or in coffee shops. I like listening to their stories and more importantly, I like writing these stories down. Don’t get me wrong, I argue frequently with my characters. I tell them what to do, kick them around, I’ve even tried to kill a few off but they don’t pay much attention to me. The story happens and I get to be there. Maybe in some way I do build my characters. Maybe I build them in that quiet spot in my mind, that spot that comes alive when I am driving or reading or listening to good music. Maybe they come to me pre-assembled, fresh out of some unknown package, read for their close up. I’m not sure and really, I am happy because of it. I like the surprise. I like the chance at a surprise encounter with a trucker addicted to pinball or a teenage prostitute who has discovered she is a faith healer. After all, the surprise is what keeps the reader, reading and the writer, writing. So if you see someone in a photograph that you know isn’t there, it’s probably because you’re a writer. If they tell you their story, listen. If they tell you to burn down the orphanage---well, I recommend skipping that part and going for an amber pill bottle with an expensive label.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-69503706993664920672011-06-24T10:45:00.000-07:002011-06-24T10:45:24.460-07:00John Schimmel on Soul's RoadThe photograph is of the road and parade ground that runs down the middle of Washington State's Fort Worden, the west coast campus of Goddard College's low residency MFA Creative Writing program. Behind the camera is the row of pre-WWI officers' houses students live in during the residencies. That road was sort of the Soul's Road for me. There was the city bus that passed by in a strange near-silence that always put me in mind of the train that ran through the water in the film SPIRITED AWAY. A totally apt reminder since I always thought Fort Worden was probably haunted and certainly some sort of a spiritual nexus. For my second residency I had a room with a view of the Admiralty Inlet and a fireplace. I developed a routine that lasted for the rest of my residencies: I would get up early, make my own breakfast and bring it to my room, write for an hour, spend the day at workshops and master classes and readings and in the commune of writers in the "Servery," then come back for a cup of tea and a fire and another hour of writing. There was something about traveling back and forth across that road and then the parade ground that had about it a Hogwarts air, like we were traversing some great divide into a magical world to learn to be wizards and draw out our own souls for examination and, on good days, healing. <br />
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/>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-9695272016732004052011-06-23T22:01:00.000-07:002011-06-23T22:13:44.132-07:00What RoadIn the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, "Soul's Road" is the road upon which our souls walk as we journey through life. Easy enough, right? Is it? Is there something else to it? Something more? Something greater? Is the road upon which we walk just as much a part of who we are as the sights we see along it, the things we do as we travel upon it?<div><br /></div><div>For me, the Soul's Road is more of a timeline, because that's the way I think. It's a graph, starting at day one, and continuing until it stops which, depending on the philosophy you subscribe to, could be before, during or after death. In any case, the road upon which I walk is, to the best of my knowledge, linear. Oh, but that may not be true. According to quantum theory, there are an infinite number of alternative roads I could have taken; one for each decision and outcome ever made in my life, if I understand it correctly. </div><div><br /></div><div>Revised definition: my Soul's Road is the path upon which I walk, singled out among the infinite possible paths of the road before, at and ahead of me, because I have/am/will walked/walking/walk it. </div><div><br /></div><div>But that's confusing. How about "the road upon which my soul treads, which is singular and unique." Now I'm getting into Scott McCloud's "what are comics" territory, but the idea is sound. While the overall effect of the infinite possibilities inherent in human life would, to my mind, look something like an enormous snowflake - with the "center" being where you are now and an infinite number of branches stretching in all directions - the road analogy still works, since the road will still move in a linear fashion through the snowflake of possibilities. That is, unless we invent time travel or a way to jump through realities like Ace Rimmer (see <i>Red Dwarf</i>.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Re-revised and simplified (again) definition: My Soul's Road is the path which I have chosen, out of the infinity of paths available, to walk at this time, in this life, and is a map of where I have been, where I am, and where I am going.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>That'll work. </div>Nate Changhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16498246330584136781noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-57877670029509360092011-06-21T21:46:00.001-07:002011-06-21T21:46:57.922-07:00MuseToday it is a lime green bouncy ball. You know the kind. They come from one of those bubble vending machines in the entrances to grocery stores. The kind that take a quarter and give something plastic with that smell that is like Christmas from the ‘70s. <br />
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I was in a parking lot. Waiting. The car was too hot and the wind was just enough to cool the skin without taking bites out of me. My fedora was pulled low to keep it on my head and my sunglasses had a thumb print in the middle of the right lens that wouldn’t wipe off. Rural, grass creeping in on the pavement, low brick business, awning sun bleached to a rust color. It was the kind of waiting that I didn’t want to do, the kind of thing you don’t want to wait for. I rested my heels against the sidewalk and stared at the threadbare clouds. <br />
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The bouncy ball was right there, between the tips of my shoes. Translucent, Jello green. Quick look around and there was nothing else save a cigarette butt and a crushed beer can. No evidence of kids, owners, collectors. Just an empty parking lot. And the ball.<br />
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I started by rolling it. Taps between each shoe, green flashes in the new summer sun. A few kicks against the sidewalk and a wild bounce that sent it rocketing through the parking lot. It ricocheted off cars, dead ended in grass and made a little rubber sound against a soda bottle. I didn’t notice the people staring at me in the waiting room, tinted windows hiding them. I didn’t notice until a patron of the business I was waiting in front of unlocked his car door, security system bleep and the end of the bouncy ball. It sailed off, the final kick fueled by the bleep. The patron and I watched it vanish into the grass. <br />
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Today it was a green ball but just as frequently it is a story, one that is found suddenly in a place I wasn’t looking. It spends time being kicked around, the object of my fascination until the last push—then free. I wasn’t sad to see the little bouncy ball go. As a hatted, bearded, broad-shouldered Montanan, I can only imagine what observers thought as I shuffled around the parking lot kicking a lime green sphere between my old-man shoes. But that too is like these stories I write, that all writers write. We work so hard, enjoy them so suddenly and them let them go–out to the reader, the observer. I wonder frequently what my readers think, what they feel. I wonder how hard they will kick the ball I send to them, how it might help them through a rough patch in a parking lot, how it might encourage them to put a quarter into a vending machine in the lobby of a grocery just to smell that smell, the one smell remembered from so long ago.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897460839307180593.post-73424982886900073762011-06-20T07:38:00.000-07:002011-06-20T07:38:56.092-07:00The Best Writing Advice Ever<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in;">What is the best writing advice I ever got?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My advisor, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, once told me that I could take my inner editor and tell her to go away for now and that I could always invite her to come back later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in;">Perfection is crippling as I stumble trying to make sure each letter is in its exact right place and the words are more likely to bottle up than to flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I’m starting to realize is that perfectionism is a way to not trust myself—it’s saying that the work I put out into the world will never be good enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I take that inner editor and tell her to go away, I am trusting that I will come back and edit this work later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am trusting that I will still remember this particular sentence felt wonky and the paragraphs need to be reversed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am trusting that I know enough about writing now that I won’t let a bad product out the door.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in;">I am also giving myself the space to get creative and to let my ideas flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My writing is better when I’m not thinking about the structure of the plot as I’m writing out early drafts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can build better worlds and flesh out my characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story can be bigger and smarter than I am.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in;">So take your trusty editor (this persona is after all your friend—just trying to help you make your best work) and tell him or her to go get a cup of coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll invite your editor back when it’s editing time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For now it’s time to sit down and create.</div>Isla McKettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119985541265369132noreply@blogger.com2