Category: Anansi Boys

  • Expect the Unexpected: Turning

    “…he could see the blackbirds, and small hedge-hopping sparrows, a single spotted-breasted thrush in the boughs of a nearby tree. Fat Charlie though that a world in which birds sang in the morning was a normal world, a sensible world, a world he didn’t mind being a part of.    Later, when birds were something to…

  • The Second Reason to Read Widely: It’s Probably Been Done

    *The First Reason to Read Widely: because reading is fun.* And now on to the second: because what you’re writing has probably been written already. I give you Exhibit A: “It begins, as most things begin, with a song.” ~opening line of Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Seems innocuous enough, right? It’s a very intriguing…

  • Chapters in Which Something Happens

    My son, who is three, is on his way to being the next Neil Gaiman. Bryce likes to tell stories. The other day we were driving somewhere, the destination is unimportant, and he asked me if I wanted to hear a story. Always open to the possibility of stealing my children’s ideas and using them…