IT'S TIME FOR THE
INSECURE WRITER’S SUPPORT GROUP BLOG DAY
The first Wednesday
of each month, members of IWSG announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG Day post. These questions may prompt you to share insight or a personal experience or story. Remember, the question is optional. IWSG was founded by Alex J. Cavanaugh and is a forum of writers who gather to talk about writing and the writer's life.The awesome co-hosts for the February 5 posting of IWSG are: Lee Lowery, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Jennifer Hawes, Cathrina Constantine, and Tyrean Martinson!
February 5 question – Has
a single photo or work of art every inspired a story? What was it and did you
finish it?
I have posted before...
About things that scared
me while growing up...
Like watching Bela
Lugosi in Dracula on TV.
Many nights with my head under the covers.....
I believed Dracula was going to morph into a bat...
I believed Dracula was going to morph into a bat...
Fly in my bedroom
window...
And turn me into a
vampire...
So I kept my window open just a few inches in the summer.
So I kept my window open just a few inches in the summer.
My dad would always
come in and open it wide...
“No, daddy,” I’d squeal,
“don’t open the window all the way.”
“But it’s too hot in
here.”
“But I’m afraid a
bird will fly in.”
(Yeah, I wasn’t
thinking bird, I was thinking bat)
Reluctantly he’d close
it.
But bats and vampires...
Weren’t the only
things that scared me.
My parents had quite
an interesting library...
And even before I could read...
I’d peruse the illustrations in those books...
I’d peruse the illustrations in those books...
Like Milton’s Paradise Lost
And Dante’s Inferno
Both book
illustrations influenced my first book, Azael’s Lot that included
angels, fallen angels, and demons
But there’s one illustration...
In Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood...
That even today gives me the shivers...
It's "Seein' Things at Night"...
Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish.
Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish.
And why you ask...
Does it still give me the shivers?
Because ghosts...
Are in my “Realms of Possibilities”
Does it still give me the shivers?
Because ghosts...
Are in my “Realms of Possibilities”
Of things that do go bump and boo in the night.
And you?
Did an illustration or
photo ever influence you?
Always,
Em-Musing
