by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Not only is this a really fun thing to do with words, it’s incredibly useful when writing a novel. To use Wordle, go to www.wordle.net and paste a chunk of text into the empty box. Wordle will create a word cloud with the words used most often appearing largest....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 1, 2010 | Poetry
QUAKER LADIES I once read something about how the meek would inherit the earth and it must be true—only look. Every child knows the bright names of Daisy and Buttercup sunning themselves in mountain meadows. Black-eyed Susan winks and waves. But here, in grown over...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Monday writing update: Week of August 23: 10 pages + one freelance article three pages long It’s kind of nice to mix a little journalistic writing in with the purely creative. Reminds me to work through a logical sequence, to structure my writing around key...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 29, 2010 | Poetry
On page 2 of my copy of Longfellow’s Poems, copyrighted 1883 and presented to Carlotta Ratts on Christmas 1886, is the poem “A Psalm of Life.” I love to “adopt” used books. And if they are particularly beautiful books that have been...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
So, I’m afraid of heights. What I consider a healthy, normal fear. And I agreed to do a freelance article about Navitat–an organization that sends people flying through the treetops on a zipline. I was down for it, too, until I saw the photos of the 1200...
