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Why I Wrote The MoonQuest (or How The MoonQuest Wrote Me)
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Thank you....for all. Yes, the synchonicities are all around us. And, yes, our awe keeps 'em comin'!>David your mind was open to this. As you can see, I visited your blog wanting to learn more about your writing.
I'm always in awe at my own muse and when it's closed I become sad. I just finished a novel (that I'm not too fond of) and my thoughts are floating today, searching for inspiration. Think I'll piggyback on to your thoughts for a while. I'm going to Amazon and try to find the Celtic Tarot Cards.
I had a dear friend who read the cards, seriously, not for money and she scared the hell out of me with what she revealed. I promised to never again let anyone read me through Tarot.
Keep up the great inspiration.
Thanks, Minnie.Don't judge your work too harshly. It may be too soon for you to be able to look at it with an objective (rather than a judgmental) eye.
As for the Celtic Tarot Deck, it's sadly out of print...although there are copies floating around on Amazon, even new ones. That's how I replaced mine.
P.S. My book about writing, The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write , also sort of snuck on me. I had no plans to write it. Like The MoonQuest , it just happened!
Mark David wrote: "Thanks, Minnie.Don't judge your work too harshly. It may be too soon for you to be able to look at it with an objective (rather than a judgmental) eye.
David, I've written 2 books and have 2 pending. You would think I can now see my work objectively. I loved my last published novel The Seduction of Mr. Bradley and think I accomplished what I sat out to do. Although upon re-reading it after publication, I realized I could have researched much further to prove my point. That the bisexual lifestyle is simply just another lifestyle, therefore it is not abnormal behavior. It goes back centuries, but is socially unacceptable today, I believe because we cannot find a black & white explanation to the lifestyle.
I digress. Anyway, I'm glad to have met you here.
Thank you, David, for giving me an opening. I plan to order your book that includes Thirteen Rules for Birthing Your Book.
It's wonderful meeting you.
Dear Minnie,Kudos to you for your courage in tackling difficult topics (pretty much anything related to alternative sexuality!).
I'm delighted to hear that you'll be ordering The Voice of the Muse. If you haven't already, and you'd like a signed copy, order it from www.calltowrite.com. That's the only way (short of seeing you in person) that I can sign it for/to you.
Otherwise, Amazon and many other online retailers carry it.
Blessings to you,
Mark David
Mark David wrote: "Dear Minnie,Kudos to you for your courage in tackling difficult topics (pretty much anything related to alternative sexuality!).
I'm delighted to hear that you'll be ordering The Voice of the Mu..."
Will do, in a couple of weeks. Waiting for the money. Ha!
Maybe you heard my cry. I was blocked and disturbed.
Again, thank you.
Whenever the money comes will be the perfect moment!
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Thanks so very much ;-)
Elizabeth Eagan-Cox
Generally when I teach, I don't write. I watch the students and hold space for them.
But this night's group is different. These five women are a subset of a larger University of Toronto class that I have just led through 10 weeks of creative awakening. They don't require my usual overseeing and so, once they're settled into writing, some inner imperative has me draw a card of my own: The Chariot.
That same imperative has me pick up a pen and push it across the blank page. What emerges is the tale of an odd-looking man in an even odder-looking coach that is pulled by two odd-colored horses.
Next morning, I'm drawn back to the story. I add to it. I keep adding to it daily, almost obsessively. And a year later in Amirault's Hill, Nova Scotia, on the anniversary of that Toronto class, I complete my first draft of The MoonQuest: A True Fantasy .
There's a postscript to this story, involving the book cover, which spookily resembles that tarot card -- even though I no long owned the deck by the time the book was finished and even though the cover designer never saw the card. (You can see the resemblance here.