Having grown up reading high fantasy novels, I came to have a deep love of author-drawn maps, glossaries of elvish terms, and character lists that included the names of dragons, queens, princes, wizards and the boy who worked in the castle kitchens and didn’t know he was a hero in the making. But, there was one familiar …
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Ghosts of Scrooges Past
I've read Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" at least twenty times and I've seen nearly every film and television version of the story, from the first silent movie depictions to Disney's most recent CGI-animated monstrosity. I enjoy the 1938 film with Gene Lockhart as the perfect Bob Cratchit, but my favorite classic version is the …
Might as Well Face it I’m Addicted to Blogs
A couple of months ago, I purged myself of most of the way, way, WAY too many blogs I'd been following. The number of posts I received were overwhelming and I felt my own precious writing time being sucked away as I tried to do justice to the writing of others. In the end, I …
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For Love of the Limerick
This is the time of year when I sometimes find my creative energies dwindling. In order to fend off the specter of the dreaded Writer's Block looming around every dreary February corner, I often turn to writing poems. Just to clarify--I am NOT a skilled poet. But somehow, getting a few very meaningful creative words …
Leanne Pankuch 