The tour requests to Land
The virtual blog tour has a layover at Writing on the Sun today.
I was invited by Michelle Pond, my pal poet from MA Poet (Focusin
g on life with a lens and a verse.) Michelle is in my writing group, Wordsmith Studio.
What I appreciate about her poetry is that she is not afraid to delve into difficult subjects.
Her chapbook, I Keep You With Me, attests to her skill at writing about grief.
Click to purchase her chapbook for .99 on your Kindle or Kindle for PC. You’ll understand what I mean.
Welcome to Writing on the Sun
The tour is simple. It is really just a series of three questions that I answer and then I send the tour on its way.
1. Why do I write what I do?
Easy Peasy.
As it pertains to this blog, poetry is how I connect, explore, and sort life.
Also, I think in verse. Which sometimes makes it hard to write in sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. But, that won’t stop me from . . . (see #3b.)
2. How does my writing process work?
Depends.
If I’m creating plot, characterization, or “what ifs,” I play inside that sand box in the mornings and in the wee hours of the night.
If I’m editing, that waits until the afternoon.
If I’m doing something visual, (see answer #3c) that’s a evening/night thing.
However, interspersed between creative spurts, I dabble in my research to reset my brain. That’s what I’m telling myself anyway. Truthfully, research is my Achilles heal in that I grab both achilles heals and disappear in that rabbit hole faster than a March Hare.
A right and left brain phenomenon? I don’t know. It just works that way with me.
Got it?
No?
Neither do I. Sometimes the order flip flops. With no warning. It’s quite unnerving to wake up with my face in (see #3c) and go to sleep with my brain in 3b mode, which aggravates my insomniac sleeping patterns.
3. What am I working on?
a. I began a new blog awhile back. The Slow Forget. I pass on info about Dementia and then sometimes I write a poem about my mom’s journey in that neverland of memory. I’m interested in utilizing Nina Amir’s method of Blogging a Book. But, not sure how to approach it yet.
b. I’m tidying up my first novel. It is still to be determined if it ever sees the light of day. Beta reader is reading. (I think) I’m toying with the synopsis still but with trepidation cuz if Beta says story stinks, then I need a total revamp of story and synopsis, which is almost as difficult to write as story itself. Then I need to decide if money is important because I may need to hire an editor. But, already, the new WIP has some traction. This time I’m going to use Scrivener to write it so I’m watching the How-to videos to learn.
c. I’m taking a more serious interest in Visual Poetry. Actually, it’s something I’ve toyed with for a long time but just now am roaming the literary journals to begin submitting some of the my work. If I get bit by the brave bug, I’ll post some here.
d.The other thing I do is read. And read. And read. I decided I read so much that I became a professional reader on NetGalley, which really means I am privileged to read advanced copies of books and write reviews. For fun.
Tickets! please take my tickets!
I’m offering free tickets to the blog tour to the following writers, who are also members of Wordsmith Studio. Please stop over at their place for some tea and pleasant reading.
Gerry Wilson
Gerry Wilson is a fiction writer, wife, mother of four sons, grandmother seven times over (four boys and three girls), and step-grandmom to three more boys, including a set of fraternal twins.
A life-long Mississippian, Gerry’s work is sometimes “Southern,” but not always. Her short fiction has appeared in Prime Number Magazine Volumes 19 and 37, Prime Number Editors’ Choice Anthology 2012, Good Housekeeping Magazine, and a number of other journals and magazines. The opening chapter of a novel, Spirit Lamp, won a “best of” award in Jane Hamilton’s fiction workshop at Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise (2011). Besides Ms. Hamilton, Gerry has studied fiction writing with Antonya Nelson, Ann Hood, Connie May Fowler, Dorothy Allison, and Ron Hansen. She’s currently querying her second novel, working on a third, and polishing up a short story collection.
Gerry and her husband live in Jackson, Mississippi, with their neurotic Siamese cat, Oliver.
To learn more about her, visit The Writerly Life and her writer’s page on Facebook. Her Twitter handle is @gerrywil.
Elissa Field
Elissa Field lives in Florida where she where she balances her time as a busy writer, teacher and mother of two sons. She has had short fiction published in venues including Conjunctions online. She is seeking an agent for her first novel, while at work finishing a second, and often shares writing resources, posts on process and reading lists at her blog. Her Twitter handle is @elissafield
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