The Driftwood page has been updated with poems and links
poetry
napowrimo
Tree of Life
nice – and true :)
We talked to our kids about souls
hard to be a parent sometimes when they ask these questions but good for your own clear thinking and lovely too, especially when years later you realise they took all you said on board and kept it
(except my son wanted to come back as a teddy bear and i imagine he must have changed his mind about that by now)
Swinging Bridge at Babcock State Park, West Virginia
“Hey Mom, are trees living things or living beings?”
Our nine year old son looked into the forest then up at me as we hiked side by side along a gurgling brook. His dad and sister walked a few steps ahead of us. Upstream was the Glade Creek Grist Mill in West Virginia, a rustic wooden building with a pitched roof. Today its wet planks were framed by yellowing autumn trees.
“I guess that depends on what you mean by living being,” I said. “I think of a being as — ” I tried to think of words that would be familiar to him. I failed. “As a sentient being — something that has a soul.” The path was littered in gold, red, and toast brown leaves, and I kicked at a drift with my leather hiking shoe.
“Personally, I think of trees…
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Ten Things My Daughter Should Know
one poem from many i liked on this site
New Page of Prompts
Writing Prompts – see the top bar menu
On this new page I will be posting, on a daily basic, writing prompts I have created or collected and used. If you use one on your own site please mention this page as the prompt source and leave a comment in the box on the Writing Prompts page so that people can find your writing.
Imagination
If I knew who this was by, or its title, I would tell you – perhaps you can tell me ?
Someone Elses Island
on a summer street
we exchanged a glance
turning back some paces on
i saw you look my way again
passing by
moving on
no words spoken
no knowledge gained
moving islands in a stream
a moment fixed in a gaze
if we had met
what might have been?
i don’t know you
you don’t know me
all that it was
it was meant to be
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/someone-elses-island/
December — Theodor Severin Kittelsen
lovely winter scene
Children’s publishers accepting unsolicited manuscripts
if you write for children look here :) – it is now updated again in January 2015
* UPDATED OCTOBER 2014*
You can’t get published without an agent, and you can’t get an agent without being published – or so the adage goes.
Thankfully, there are still a few children’s book publishers who are happy to wade through the ‘slush pile’, that teetering tower of manuscripts we imagine fill up a corner of the office, each one representing an agent-less writer who is hoping against hope that they might be plucked from obscurity.
So in the spirit of writerly comradeship here is my current list of writer-friendly children’s fiction publishers in the UK who still accept unsolicited manuscripts. Check their website guidelines and submit away, but please do correct me if I’ve made any errors or incorrect assumptions.
NB Where there is a link, I have endeavoured to take you, the linkee, to the submissions guidelines page of the publisher’s website; where that is not possible I…
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Doors, Corridors, And Lessons Learned
worthy of a read – as is much else on this site
The Dreaming Path 