Welcome to my Saturday series of posts taken from my old blog, thus the title “From the Archives.” All the posts in this series will be under the category “Looking Back and Moving Forward.” This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on September 6, 2011. Beverley Brenna was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a city …
From the Archives — Interview with Beverley Brenna Read More »
The word spelled a-u-g-u-s-t has at least two meanings. The most obvious is the month we are currently in, the eighth month of the year. August. But “august” can also mean something particularly noteworthy, something esteemed. In music, an augmented fifth is a type of chord that uses a note slightly higher than a normal …
August Augmented Fifths — 1/5 — The Keeper of the Trees by Beverley Brenna Read More »
What’s that? This blog is supposed to be on hiatus right now? Well, yes, you’re right, but technically I scheduled this post back on June 30th, so I’m not really blogging in July. Not really. What I’m really doing is pointing you to Marcie Colleen’s blog, The Write Routine, where she has a new series …
Friendspiration post at The Write Routine today! Read More »
Juxtaposition. A satisfyingly long word. In its simplest sense, it means placing something next to something else. In film, it is particularly “the contiguous positioning of either two images, characters, objects, or two scenes in sequence, in order to compare and contrast them, or establish a relationship between them; see also sequence, symmetry, and composition.” …
J is for … Juxtaposition — and a Wednesday Worthy Read More »
Improv. Improvisation. Acting without the roadmap of a script. Some actors revel in it, others, I suspect, dread it. A website like learnimprov can help a person to understand the basics, but there’s nothing like just getting up there in front of people and doing it. (Scary as that may sound.) Improvisation is also a …
Years ago, my first singing teacher brought out a piece of music and said, “The lyrics of this song were written by someone named Stilborn. Is she any relation to you?” Yes. My aunt (by marriage, but as close as blood in our hearts). The song, “Who Seeketh Beauty,” told of someone, who, seeking the …
And the winner of the giveaway for one copy of Waiting for No One by Beverley Brenna is… (drumroll please)… Lucky Number 13, Julie Hedlund! Congratulations, Julie! Please contact me through the contact form on this blog with your mailing address, and I’ll send the book out to you as soon as possible. For those …
Something writer, actor, arts advocate, literacy advocate Julie Andrews stresses, no matter who she’s talking to — aspiring writers, young people wanting to become involved in the arts, whoever — is that one must do one’s homework, be fully prepared, and be ready to recognize and seize opportunities when they come along. I find it …