Post the link to your blogged slice to schoology before the start of class each Friday.
While scoping out the news this morning, I spotted this story linked from CNN’s website.
“Oooh, my gooooooodness!”
Like spontaneous fireworks, and a symphony of shouted questions - “Could this be real?” - and instantaneous responses of “Yes!” something I hadn't even entertained was true and actually happening. A sequel to The Shining is being published entitled, Doctor Sleep, and will come out on September 24. I’ll have to get The Shining on my nook, or pick a paperback copy so I can reread it before the new book come out. We began to listen to the original book in the car years ago, but the hours seemed too intensive when compared to listening to the memoir Angela’s Ashes multiple times enroute to see family.
I also am excited about this interview, because it is too rare a thing that we get to hear about the creative process of our most beloved and gifted storytellers. All the researching, note-taking, collecting of complementary inspirations, and THINKING about your pieces I wish for you and encourage you to do is enacted by the authors whose books we read. Some of the seminal authors in history and in our lives have tales of the most humble, seemingly inconsequential, or fleeting thoughts that were their original spark of an idea that went on to change readers' lives. These catalyst ideas and frequently the quirks of their creative processes are summarized and retold as folklore; J.K. Rowling’s idea scribbled on a napkin, and John Steinbeck’s trips to migrant camps in California, for example. Writing is all about letting ideas grow - a greenhouse for relatable life stories or the stuff of universal nightmares; the most surreal fiction, or nonfiction that causes a shocked breath to be sucked in as you take pause at what life or the world can produce - the simply profound act of writing (a la our Creative Writing class) is about connecting with one another.
Whether in 'circled wagons' of slices shared or in bestselling series, it is a banner day when those treasured storytellers of our lives and time create in front of our eyes.