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The Appalachian Mountains are full of stories. The people there are full of personality and the settings can be beautiful and sometimes challenging. If you’ve read any of my stories, you know most of them have Kentucky history. So, my Appalachian stories have Kentucky settings, but the Appalachian Mountains run through several states. There are many stories that writers can …
“Inside each of us is a natural-born storyteller, waiting to be released.” — Robin Moore, author I love storytelling. I guess that’s not a surprise to any of you since I’m always trying to tell stories or write stories or share other people’s stories. I love listening to stories. Because I loved listening to my mother’s stories of growing up …
Yesterday, April 27th, was National Tell a Story Day. Don’t ask me how you get something named a National Day because I don’t know. But every day has a few national somethings. Sometime last week it was World Book Day. Then there was Speak like Shakespeare Day. Naturally, we all just pay attention to those days that catch our interest …
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. – Neil Gaiman While this quote is really speaking of readers when they pick a book to read, I can make it mine in a different way. Each time I have the blessing of holding one of my stories wrapped up in a beautiful cover with my words spread on …
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.” – Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale Someone once called me a storyteller. I loved hearing that. From the time I first learned cursive writing, I’ve wanted to write down stories. Maybe I printed out some before then. And now my fingers on …
I love to listen to people tell stories. That could be because I’ve been called a storyteller, but I usually tell my stories with my fingers on a keyboard. My stories are generally printed in books and sometimes read aloud by a narrator on audio books. These Healing Hills has just been released on audio books. I talked to the …
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn’t. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice – by work. – Donna Tartt I was once called a storyteller by a person I respected. I think it was one of the nicest things anybody has ever …
Thank you all so much for playing my caption game. It’s fun to read all your imagined captions. Ola and Kathleen nailed what really happened on the day I took that picture with their spider captions. That’s what really happened. Her sister on the couch beside her has just pointed out that a spider was on her skirt. Now, it’s …
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it. ~Margaret Atwood I got to do something I’ve wanted to do for years yesterday. Go back to the Cave Run Storytelling Festival. I went once before, probably ten years or more ago. The one yesterday was their 18th event. I wish I could …
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane Sometimes I feel as though I’m soaked in those words as the writer above says I must be, but then other times the words seem to be hiding from me. Especially those two …