Beverly Farr's Blog, page 10
June 16, 2013
No one cries like Jane Wyman
Today I watched Miracle in the Rain again. I really like Van Johnson and he is such an earnest, slightly amusing young soldier in this movie. He meets and basically invites himself into Jane Wyman‘s pathetic life. She works at a tedious job and takes care of her invalid mother at night. I enjoy watching […]
June 15, 2013
The Dream Job and How to Get There
Point A to Point B. It should be easy, but as most things in life, Point B is really Point J or maybe Z, and there are many steps along the way. I just read Quitter by Jon Acuff. It’s a motivation book about how to go from your current job to your dream […]
June 2, 2013
Would Jane Austen be appalled or amused?
I have said before that I would not be reading about Jane Austen zombies, but as it turns out, I have been reading about Jane Austen shape-shifters. I don’t read enough science fiction and fantasy to know what category this book would fall into, but I just finished reading Pride and Platypus by Vera Nazarian […]
May 25, 2013
Praising Barbara Cartland
In 1983, Barbara Cartland wrote 23 novels and holds the Guiness World Record for the most novels written in a single year. I remember reading some of those books that year. I sometimes joked that she revisited 6 basic plot ideas, and all her heroines seemed to have heart-shaped faces and violet eyes, but when […]
May 13, 2013
Richard Armitage Boring? Not a chance.
Recently Richard Armitage spoke about the creative process of acting with PopcornTaxi here. Some of his comments rang true to me because his acting process appears similar to my writing process. “RA: We were always told, ‘don’t bring the character to you, go to the character’. I always preferred leaving lots of myself outside […]
May 6, 2013
Worth a thousand words
I read Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard years ago, and learned about the subliminal messages created by various advertising techniques. Different colors send different messages to the brain, and that’s true with shapes as well. We live in a visual world and we all interpret the avalanche of data that surrounds us. With this in […]
April 27, 2013
Improvements
The M-word has also been improved. New cover: I liked the old cover, but it didn’t tell people at a glance what the story was about. Now, I think they’ll know. Note: the cover has been updated on Amazon and Smashwords. Barnes and Noble may take a few days, maybe a week. And I’m […]
