“A thousand pumpkin smiles look down from the Halloween Tree, and twice-times-a-thousand fresh-cut eyes glare and wink and blink…” – Ray Bradbury | The Halloween Tree
Greetings! Last week was a busy week for me as it was a week off from school, so I tried to tackle chores around the house and work on some projects. Alas, they never actually get done. Regardless, we are now entering my favorite month of the year and my favorite time to write.
As such, I am going to start another blog that is dedicated to short horror stories and poems (trying to find a smaller niche that I would also love and enjoy writing). Essentially, I wanted to write short-form summaries and analyses for short horror fiction and poems that have impacted me in some way. Sharing short stories with others is essential, as is building additional context through research. And it’s even more enjoyable when the stories are spooky! I will be tinkering with it for the next little while, so it may change a bit as the weeks go on, and I will post about it when I get the time.
Lastly, I wanted to share that I have now accumulated over a year’s worth of posts! That’s 367 posts since the blog started three years ago. The initial idea was to write a post a day since it started, but life gets in the way. Nevertheless, I am now more on track with posting daily than I have ever been.
Today on the blog, I am going to review what we learned last week and what we are going to explore next week.
Last Week:
We provided some final thoughts on “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain. In my post-analysis, I discussed the idea of “parental love” and how it played a part throughout Twain’s book. Additionally, our Word of the Week was “Patricide,” and we examined how that impacted the finale of the text.
Furthermore, I briefly described my road trip and the books I found while gallivanting Up North in Michigan. Continuing, we analyzed a quote by Mark Twain about waiting to be successful as writers and why a paycheck doesn’t always cut it in the profession.
Additionally, we revisited two older posts that I re-edited: one about author Saul Bellow and one about Folklore, Myth, and Legend.
This Week:
For this week’s posts, we are going to cover the following topics:
- Monday: We begin reading Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree.”
- Tuesday: Word of the Week, “Jack-O-Lantern.”
- Wednesday: Writing Prompt.
- Thursday: Writing Craft: Atmosphere.
- Friday: Re-edited, “Samhain.”
- Saturday: Literary Quotes: Writing Advice.
Sunday: Reflections.
Feel free to stop by, Like, and Comment. See you on the blog this week!
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