Miss Charlotte's Babblings
Posts by: Charlotte Babb
Pirates! They seem so cute in the movies with their moral compasses that only point to what they want most! “Take what you can!” they say, “Give Nothing Back!” and then they quaff their beers and go off on another adventure on the high seas–or sleep it off with the pigs. What they want most [...]
I’ve been following the writing of Fiona Robyn, and she chooses a word for the year as a base of her spiritual practice. My word this year is “trust.”
I’m trusting the process. After all, the Universe has been trucking along now for at least 4000 years [...]
An earworm is a song that bores through your brain because you overheard a snatch from someone’s ipod, shopping mall muzac, or a random radio station. An earworm can drive you nuts, especially if it’s something like the song by the purple dinosaur (some countries use that as torture for political prisoners). It’s like some [...]
This time of year is all about gifts and giving. But is it about receiving?
I said to a friend yesterday that I’d rather give something away, that I’d rather feel the pleasure of giving than to feel cheated in selling it at a yard sale.
At one time, I had bought a number of [...]
Orange you glad the pumpkin holidays are over? Halloween and Thanksgiving have given up the Ghost of Pumpkin past, and it rises into the sky on CyberMonday, foretelling the weeping of rain…sailors beware.
Fiona Robyn is challenging writers to a River of Small Stones in January. Each day the challenge is to pay attention to [...]
I’m listening to a webinar on creating unforgettable content, and the short version of the answer is contrast and incongruity make a message more memorable. But there can only be so much contrast–everything can’t be memorable.
Contrast can be created in many ways, but one I’ve noticed today is the contrast between bright and neutral [...]
Dragon*Con 2011 was a wonderful experience for me. For the first time, I sat with other authors, (people who have written books that are published) and spoke about what I know as an author. The panel was World Building, and I got to sit next to Janny Wurts, [...]
I’m reading Step by Step: By Hand and by Foot, a blog by Melissa West that I found while looking for fairy tale research.
She is doing a series of prints with hand coloring based on fairy tales, lovely graphic work. The one that caught my [...]
Christian Jackson has created a series of posters for fairy tales–minimalist designs that abstract the key element of each story. Still, if you don’t know the story, the poster is only a hint of what might be told.
See them at Square Inch Designs: http://www.squareinchdesign.com/category/special-projects/
Getting up early in the morning is my way of meeting the inner dark, the creative soil of my soul. I do my meditative writing, and often watch as the sky grows light. Today is the end of the moon cycle, the “old” moon that rises as a crescent before sunrise.
This morning as I [...]
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