IA: Initiate (IA #1) by John Darryl Winston (Goodreads Author) 41544935 Ilona Rapp’s review Dec 02, 2015 (also published on Goodreads and Amazon) What happens when a songwriter tells a story? In IA Initiate, we have the opportunity to find … Continue reading
Truth is inalienable, except when it is not. It is a many layered work of art, a composition, with seemingly contradictory elements, each of which defines truth within the fabric of the observer’s background, position, angle of ascent or descent, … Continue reading
Little Snapping Turtle Remember how you’d bite When your splashing went unnoticed When our silence gathered spite Little Snapping Turtle Remember how you’d kick When you sought the warmth of comfort Or when you’d fallen sick Little Snapping Turtle Sleeping … Continue reading
Poet John Wisdom posted a five line tanka on twitter which carried me back to my childhood. The celebrating event defining summer was two fold. First my hair would be pinned up into my “summer bun,” and secondly, I would … Continue reading
Should We Use a Single or a Double Space at the End of a Thought? My son is taking college classes in lieu of high school and I have been editing his work. I later realized that he had also … Continue reading
I have not attempted to write a song in decades, and I didn’t intend to write this one, though I was challenged to do so. The melody and lyrics streamed through the open door I provided and I share them with … Continue reading
It’s Raining in Anchorage It’s raining in Anchorage. The glaciers have surrendered and the solstice draws near shrouded in brilliant endeavors The glaciers have surrendered The wanton path of progress shrouded in brilliant endeavors bleeds a murmuring of sunlight The … Continue reading
My daughter landed in New York this week. To my delight, she asked about my favorite haunts in Manhattan. My memories, surprisingly, are almost as old as she is, and from a time when I was exactly her age. That … Continue reading
I am going to skip to the conclusion and announce that I successfully submitted my three entries into the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association Unpublished Contest two days ago. It was, of course, the final day and the final hour of … Continue reading
For the writer, language is a powerful tool. Some writers sidestep the title of “author” on the basis of semantics. Despite their status as synonyms, the two words can carry different connotations. Going back to basics, I looked for the … Continue reading
Solace Born of Winter is the first novel in my Series, the Sentinels of Solace. It is a contemporary fantasy which was conceived four years ago, in celebration of my birth as a writer. The writer within me learned to … Continue reading