tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post116810539460590633..comments2024-03-10T14:07:40.468-04:00Comments on Blue Rose Girls: Blue Rose Girlshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05224076615462128422noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1168309452480361482007-01-08T21:24:00.000-05:002007-01-08T21:24:00.000-05:00Thanks Libby,My first book won't be out until the ...Thanks Libby,<BR/>My first book won't be out until the fall of 08, but there is a beautiful new book about the jouney of the magi called Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher. <BR/><BR/>I've been enjoying your blog for a few months now, so I'll have to post more often.<BR/><BR/>RosanneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1168265387636036032007-01-08T09:09:00.000-05:002007-01-08T09:09:00.000-05:00Rosanne what a great comment! I love the way you d...Rosanne what a great comment! I love the way you describe Epiphany -- I had forgotten or never known that only they could see the star. It IS all a great metaphor for a writer's life. And I love your family's silly (but great) feast, too. Thank you for sharing.<BR/><BR/>Do you have any books out there we can read?<BR/><BR/>Thank you Julie and A and Rosanne: your responses to this post have made me like blogging again. We <B>are</B> all on that journey in the desert, following stars (our own) only we can see and it's good to be communicating with fellow travellers.Libby Koponenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508041827996196293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1168244793647335522007-01-08T03:26:00.000-05:002007-01-08T03:26:00.000-05:00I love Epiphany too! My family has a silly feast w...I love Epiphany too! My family has a silly feast where we dress up in crowns and bathrobes and address eachother as royalty while eating Chinese take out.<BR/><BR/>But we also share our favorite, or maybe our most difficult, journey of the year, physical or otherwise.<BR/><BR/>As a writer, I like to think about those magi traveling by night in the desert following nothing more definate than a star which, if you read the scriptures closely, only they can see. Could there be a better metaphor for a writers life? Even better they think they are going to find a king, but they end up meeting the child of paupers for whom their gifts are no use at all.<BR/><BR/>For me Epiphany reminds me to be faithful to my writing journey even when it takes me in a totally unanticipated direction and not to judge my results hastily. <BR/><BR/>So happy Epiphany to all you writers and artists making your way across the desert in the dark. I feel better already knowing I'm not the only one on the journey.<BR/><BR/>RosanneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1168195055934356292007-01-07T13:37:00.000-05:002007-01-07T13:37:00.000-05:00Good answer, Libby. For me, anyway. I worry all ...Good answer, Libby. For me, anyway. I worry all the time that I don't have any deep insights, universal wisdom, or answers to share with young readers. I trip and stumble through life just like they do, feeling my way, guessing, hoping.<BR/><BR/>It's a relief to think I don't have to create epiphanies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1168180123896584852007-01-07T09:28:00.000-05:002007-01-07T09:28:00.000-05:00Thanks! Julie, that's a great idea (meeting at Be...Thanks! Julie, that's a great idea (meeting at Bemelman's), Yes, it is expensive but hey, it won't be a tragedy fr me anyway to limit the # of drinks I order....and those murals are worth it. Let's do it! Thanks for the idea. Maybe we (whoever we are, it would be fun to find out) could even make it a traidtion to meet there on Epiphany.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for responding: I was amost afaid to post this so especcially appreciated people's comments (I always do, but sometimes they are reassuring as well as being welcome).<BR/><BR/>As for epiphanies: in my work they just appear (or not) for readers & no two readers have the same ones. I am always surprised when people tell me what the book made them feel, think, remember....these surprises are part of the fun of being an author.<BR/><BR/>Thank you both for your fun comments and happy Epiphany!Libby Koponenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508041827996196293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1168135774701963852007-01-06T21:09:00.000-05:002007-01-06T21:09:00.000-05:00Oh, oh, oh! Here's a subject I'd like you *all* t...Oh, oh, oh! Here's a subject I'd like you *all* to weigh in on: how and when do your story epiphanies appear to you in the creation process?<BR/><BR/>Do you begin a project knowing the epiphany you want to share, and then build a story around it? <BR/><BR/>Or do you simply write a story and maybe, if you're lucky, an epiphany appears, seemingly out of nowhere?<BR/><BR/>What if you write a whole story and no epiphany appears? Do you scrap it? Is it a requirement for a story?<BR/><BR/>And how come my own blog doesn't inspire these kinds of questions and thoughts in me?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1168110904567312232007-01-06T14:15:00.000-05:002007-01-06T14:15:00.000-05:00Happy Epiphany! Sometime the kid-lit bloggers' dri...Happy Epiphany!<BR/><BR/> Sometime the kid-lit bloggers' drink night should be at Bemelman’s. I think the drinks are a little pricey, but what the hey.<BR/><BR/>"Reading can part the curtain between the everyday and its meaning..." I'll drink to that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com