LEVEL 1 — HE SHOOTS So, true confessions — I’ve never even held a video game controller. No X-Box, Nintendo, or Wii. No Fortnite, League of Legends, or Grand Theft Auto. I’m no anti-gamer, I’ve just had too much other stuff to do to make the time. Then what time I did have filled up with marriage, family, writing, scripts, … Read More
Vessel Time Live Interview with Fantasy Author – Elizabeth Isaacs
Vessel Time Live with Anna Elias I was fortunate to share some one-on-one Zoom time with fantasy author, Elizabeth Isaacs on my January FB Live. Elizabeth is a woman of many layers and talents. We discussed her books — “The Scythian Trials,” and “The Light of Asteria” and others in the Kailmeyra Chronicles. We talked shop on her inspirations, and … Read More
FaceBook Live Chat — “Character: What+Why=Who”
“VESSEL TIME LIVE” with author Anna M. Elias Writers invent characters whole cloth for their fictional tales. These people have to feel real on the page or screen or we don’t connect. Old or young, villain or hero, killer or savior, they must “live and breathe” in their world as we do in ours – warts and all. How do … Read More
The Eyes Have It…
This one came to me in a writing practice yesterday. The prompt was “Write about a reflection.” As with all writing practices, I put pen to paper with no idea what would follow. Here it is: The mirror comes to mind most readily. A reflection of our faces, our hair and clothes – at the worst of times and the … Read More
It’s Just Cleaning Day. Right?
It has been a year since Mom died. Her beautiful soul passed peacefully and pain free in our home, under Hospice care, after losing her battle to brain cancer. The memories are happy, and we have no regrets, but the scar is still fresh. Every holiday and birthday without her has held its own form of mourning, but the one-year … Read More
Love – Heaven’s Bitcoin
Mom is heavy on my mind today. Not only is March 20th her birthday, our first without her on this plane, but she died four months ago today at age 91. She passed peacefully in her bed on that beautiful clear Sunday, with my family by her side. Even our dog, Karma, would not leave until she crossed the veil. … Read More
Finding Peace in the Pieces
The word “peace” comes up a lot this time of year: we share peace at the holidays; we offer peace to our friends and neighbors; we sing songs of peace for the world, and we send cards and gifts adorned with doves and good wishes and blessings of all kinds. But do we live it? Looking at the daily chaos, … Read More
What Price Peace
One of my favorite songs during the holidays is “Let There Be Peace On Earth” written in 1955 by Jill Jackson Miller and Sy Miller. From the time I was young, the combination of music and lyrics in this song stopped me in my tracks and, most times, reduced me to a blubbering mess until the last note faded away. … Read More
I Observe, I Imagine – A Cool Tool for Hot Times
It is so easy to judge other people – friends, family, enemies – based on something they said or did, or on something we observe and don’t like about them. In fact, judging seems to be THE default setting for most of us humans around the world. Especially now with 24-hour news that feeds on sensationalism as much as story, … Read More
Writing – the call of the Empath
My rich, full life as wife, mother, business partner in two companies, social justice warrior and free-lance writer was recently, and quite unexpectedly, expanded into the realm of also being a full-time daughter to an 88 year-old mother who suffered a stroke. Mom lost the feeling on her right side, and she suffered some hiccups to her memory, but thankfully … Read More
