What’s the Story?
Today’s blog is in celebration of my release this week of Lying Eyes, a romantic suspense with an important subplot between the heroine Iris and her father Cosmo.
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I haven’t been posting on Wednesdays because I’ve suffered a little set-back in my training. It’s disappointing to me because I was working out at just under 5 miles every other day. I was gaining strength and stamina. But I apparently pushed too hard. My left ankle
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I remember as a kid, sequels were a rare and special thing. With classic movies, you might have a sequel featuring specific characters (The Thin Man’s Nick and Nora Charles come to mind), but more often than not, Hollywood would identify chemistry between two performers and just cast them in different story lines and let them work their magic. Tracey and Hepburn. Astaire and Rogers.
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“If you build it, he will come.” Remember those words? That haunting whispered voice carried through the windswept corn in Field of Dreams.
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="http://www.amyatwell.com/the-story-that-changed-my-life/" align="left"]As a kid, I loved cartoons. LOVED them. Saturday morning, no questions asked, the television room was mine. Bugs Bunny. Scooby Doo. Pink Panther.
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The concept of world-building in a story always makes me think of fantasies and science fiction. Epic stories such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potteror Star Wars. Places where the world, the beings, and the “rules” are foreign to me.
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This post first appeared on my former blog Nov. 8. 2010. The concept of world-building in a story always makes me think of fantasies and science fiction. Epic stories such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potteror Star Wars. Places where the world, the beings, and the “rules” are foreign
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Charlotte’s Web was a particular favorite story of mine as a kid. Which is pretty funny, since I have a healthy terror of spiders. But somehow, Charlotte A. Cavatica and, of course, Wilbur the pig totally won my heart. So, in 1974, at the age of 11, I was actually excited when my mom suggested we go meet Mr. White.
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I started reading at an early age because I was surrounded by readers in my family. Our household was the kind where gift-wrapped books under the tree on Christmas morning weren’t just expected, they were treasured.
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Am I the only person who, while watching television, sits through the commercial breaks and analyzes each commercial?
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