Logos & Mythos Blog
Welcome to the LOGOS & MYTHOS Blog! This is my virtual home for thoughts on reading, writing and all things literary. Get cozy, prop your feet up and sip some hot tea with me as I share my Indie Author journey. Subscribe below to receive each weekly post right in your inbox and check out this post for the story behind my unusual blog—and Press—name.
Teaching Poetry to Kids
In honor of National Poetry Month, I wanted to take a look at teaching poetry to kids. Now, I've read the horror stories of poetry-as-torture that some people recall from their elementary and junior high days. Most high school and college memories seem to be more...
Chat with Poet Mea Smith
Happy National Poetry Month!! As promised in this post on what I consider to be the most personal kind of writing, we're continuing a monthlong celebration of POETRY in an interview with a poet. This isn't any old poet, though! She is one of my dearest friends who...
What’s the Most Personal Form of Writing?
Writers leave themselves on the page, regardless of what they're writing. Call it an occupational hazard or a natural part of the creative process, weaving the reality with fiction into a tapestry that is both believable and tangible for the reader. So, could there...
To Fear or Not to Fear: Finding Myself in My Fiction
Today's focus is my fourth writing fear—finding myself in my fiction. This aspect of writing brings good and bad with it, so I've come to the decision that it's all in how you handle it. Write what you know. If you've spent any time around writers or as a writer,...
To Fear or Not to Fear: World-building
Fantasy—the one genre I swore I would never, no how, no way write. Guess what I'm writing? In order to write fantasy, I have to do something incredibly more difficult than piecing words together to make a book; it's called world-building. This is the third writing...
To Fear or Not to Fear: Creativity Amidst Chaos
I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like I'm walking through life on a narrow path between towering mountains of dirty dishes and clothes, unpaid bills, messy floors and to-do lists longer than the Amazon River. Plus, there's the ever-present odor of two big...
Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach To Find And Keep Your Writing Critique Partner
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