MissMeliss | August 7, 2010
This week you are going to write your acceptance speech. Whether it is your Oscar’s speech, the dedication page from your book, or some other award, make sure it is for the award that is the most important one you can think of. In that moment of accepting your prize, who are you going to [...]
MissMeliss | April 18, 2010
I’m not at church this morning, because a chipped tooth has made it painful to talk or sing, but it doesn’t hurt to write so I thought I’d address the Sunday Scribblings topic of the moment: Wonder. Specifically, they ask, “What do you wonder? Have you experienced wonder? Is it a feeling? An emotion? A [...]
MissMeliss | March 28, 2010
One becomes two, two becomes three, and by means of the third and fourth achieves unity; thus two are but one…. Invert nature and you will find that what you seek… Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought… – Maria the Jewess, 300 A.D. To many people alchemy is [...]
MissMeliss | June 22, 2008
There’s a line in The Pirate Movie an appallingly bad movie version of The Pirates of Penzance, in which Kristy McNichol breaks character as Mabel and tells the camera, “I want a happy ending.” She then proceeds to re-arrange the cast into couples, and action resumes. It’s an exceptionally cheesy moment in a movie that [...]
MissMeliss | January 12, 2008
I haven’t been to the library in years, and I’m itching for a trip to one, because free books are never a bad idea. Except of course that when it comes to me and libraries, the books are never free, because I’m not good about honoring The Date. You know the one. It’s either printed [...]
MissMeliss | October 6, 2007
“Sorry – no Scribble” was what participants looking for a prompt were greeted with this week when we went to the Sunday Scribblings website, and people quickly decided to accept the challenge to write something anyway. The word “sorry” inspired me to figure out a scene from my book. I’m linking you to the raw, [...]
MissMeliss | September 29, 2007
They stare up at me, waiting, their luminous eyes large, and tracking my every move. Every flash of my knife makes their heads twitch a little bit. Every time they hear the blade contact the wooden block they flinch slightly, moving one foot just a little bit, then easing it back into its starting position. [...]
MissMeliss | September 23, 2007
Hi, my name is MissMeliss and I’m writing a book. No, too cute. Better use my real name. Hi, I’m Melissa and I’m writing a book. *sigh* My real name is frumpy and dull, and doesn’t have the energy I need to make myself believe in this book-thing. Sorry Mom. I tried to change it [...]
MissMeliss | September 15, 2007
The thing about hats and shoes is that even when your weight fluctuates, they always fit. I like shoes as much as anyone with fashionista tendencies, but I am a klutz with weak ankles, so much of my shoe lust happens from afar. Hats though. Hats are my thing. It takes a special quality to [...]
MissMeliss | September 8, 2007
I write for a living, but somehow I separate that writing, which is mainly car reviews and articles on demand, from writing I do here in my blog, or any kind of fiction. I’m technically a working writer, but I think of myself as a marketing professional, because otherwise, otherwise I’d feel like a hack, [...]
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
—
