by Carolyn Bass | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
A friend posted in Facebook how she needed an uplift. I had been feeling gloomy for a few days, but when I read her cry for encouragement, I drew this from my own need: We are sisters within spheres of light and darkness. My my light shines when yours is dim and your...
by Carolyn Bass | Nov 3, 2013 | Ovations
Before heading down for my writing residency at Weymouth, I spent the last week reading through the 23,000-plus words I’d already written in my WIP to re-familiarize myself with the storyline and to reenter the atmosphere of the draft. I was pleased with the...
by Carolyn Bass | Oct 30, 2013 | Ovations
It’s November. National Novel Writing Month, affectionately known as Nanowrimo. I’ve taken the Nanowrimo challenge this year to finish my long-neglected novel, Whispering Nights. And what a better way to get into the daily writing habit than a week-long...
by Carolyn Bass | Jul 2, 2013 | Ovations
Artists were exalted ones in my little world. Singers, dancers, actors, writers—anyone on a platform or stage. In my little world we were the lowliest. Daddy was an auto mechanic who raced motorcycles for the thrill of it. He’d once been a sword swallower at a circus,...
by Carolyn Bass | Apr 26, 2013 | Ovations
The prevailing winds of Kitty Hawk where Tara Staley set her new novel, Conditions Are Favorable, can blow a person, a ship or a flying machine right off course. The known course for books featuring the Wright brother’s first flight experiments in Kitty Hawk is that...
