Charlotte (a spider) & Cam (a cardinal): Animals as Muses for Writers
by
TheLastLeafGardener
(IC: blogger)
I should be busy at work on one of the chapters for the book (that centers around Cam, my visiting cardinal) as I've now submitted to a publisher a portion of my book, with the outline for subsequent chapters.
Right now, I'm preoccupied by a few ideas that are in my head; hence the picture of my trustworthy pencil (posted below).
Right now, I'm preoccupied by a few ideas that are in my head; hence the picture of my trustworthy pencil (posted below).
However, I don't think I have a case of writer's block; rather, I seem to be afflicted with a little case of writer's pride, a condition described in an eloquent manner by E.B. White (the prolific author of many works but generally (mainstream public) is most known for "The Elements of Style," "Stuart Little," and "Charlotte's Web").
In the aforementioned photo-op she is dining at a make-shift feeder that I have designed in a last ditch effort to be able to deter pigeons while accommodating cardinals and smaller songbirds.
Two people, each one from different bird supply stores had varying theories.
But what more can I say about them other than reference a quote I mentioned in a prior post*: "The very old, they are miracles like the just born; close to the end is precious like close to the beginning."
My hope in getting these vines was to attract humming birds to my garden, and I had wanted to include David, the grower, in my writings, because he is the one who told me Candy Corn vines attract humming birds!
My unwritten bucket list also includes an unwritten rebuttal to a comment made to me on Blogger* re my id-ing of a Farfugium japonicum ('Cristata') plant whose leaves can be seen below.
I have come to the end of E.B. White's "Unwritten" bucket list, and although I have much more on mine, HT will only allow one more picture and I've chosen the following, picture that shows another angle of my WRITER'S BLOCK PENCIL.
Hopefully, by sharing E.B. White's essay, I've shed a bit of light, or another angle on writer's block in the event that anyone out there in HT land struggles with their muse.
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Published May 20th, 2014 6:00 AM
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Douglas Hunt on May 20, 2014Does anyone go to an editor with "typed pages in hand" anymore? How delightfully old-fashioned! Best of luck with the book. Love the title!
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