A few days ago, I wrote about the challenges I face as an older writer and painter. Today, I want to flip that coin. I can honestly say that now that I am older, I don’t feel the same pressure that I faced when I was younger– the pressure to please some faceless mass, to…
Category: Bradbury
What Ray Bradbury Says about Writing Morning Pages
“Ray Bradbury (born August 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.—died June 5, 2012, Los Angeles, California) was an American author best known for his highly imaginative short stories and novels that blend a poetic style, nostalgia for childhood, social criticism, and an awareness of the hazards of runaway technology.” Google ai I’m not exactly when it…
Jacki Kellum Free Study of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Day 5
Yesterday, in our study of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, we talked about Artist’s Brain’s ability to Paint with the Colors of the Wind and the need to write in the Language of the Birds. Today, I want to talk about Ray Bradbury, an American writer who did write in the Language of the Birds….
Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 3
Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, Chapter 3 You can read Chapter 3, in its entirety, at the end of the post. Watching the boys vanish away, Charles Halloway suppressed a sudden urge to run with them, make the pack. He knew what the…
How to Use Color-Coded Book Tags to Annotate & Tag a Book
You can Buy Golcellia Transparent Sticky Notes Tabs at Amazon – Link In the above post, I tell you that I use different color book tabs to designate various information. When I see an important quote, I designate that with purple tabs. [You could use any color for that]. When themes are mentioned, I use…
Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 2
Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, The entire second chapter of Something Wicked This Way Comes is at the end of this post. Before I start talking about chapter 2, I want to say a few words about the themes in Something Wicked This…
How to Make A Book or Reading Journal – Free Sample Pages
Daily Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Day Weekly Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Week. It’s Good to Assess Your Reading Progress Periodically – A Weekly Check is Good. Monthly Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Month. We’ll Finish Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes…
Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 1
Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, I. Arrivals Chapter 1 The seller of lightning-rods arrived just ahead of the storm. He came along the street of Green Town, Illinois, in the late cloudy October day, sneaking glances over his shoulder. Somewhere not so far back, vast lightnings…
Let’s Take a Deep Dive into Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
Let’s Take a Deep Dive into Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. Let’s Read to be Amazed. October is going to be an amazing month for me. Alluding to Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting, October of 2022 is at the tip-top of the Ferris Wheel of My Life. On October 18, 2022, my debut picture…
Authors Inspired by October
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables “What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.” ―…