Cruella Deville, Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella–the list goes on and on–Disney has brought numerous characters into our lives, and each character is unique. #MemoirFest Day 18: Paint One of Your Favorite Disney Characters with Words. Cruella Deville Bambi and Thumper
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#MemoirFest Day 17 – Write about Your Favorite Disney Movie
A Chronological List of Most of the Early Disney Movies — Which I Call the Golden Age of Disney Movies. I was born in 1950, and Ole Yeller was the first movie that I saw in a theater. It broke my heart. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs December 21, 1937 Pinocchio February 7, 1940…
#MemoirFest Day 14 – Read about Autumn in Excerpts of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Write about Autumn Leaves
BY THE WAYSIDE On the hill the golden-rod, And the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, In autumn beauty stood. William Cullen Bryant. AMONG AUTUMN LEAVES In WOOD WANDERINGS BY WINTHROP PACKARD ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES COPELAND Published in 1910 THE deep woods catch all the rich colors of the…
#MemoirMondays November 15, 2021 – Write about Blackbirds or Crows
Especially in the USA, Crows or Blackbirds are simply part of the landscape, and over time, they have become associated with the Autumn time of year. I suppose that is because we associate Scarecrows with the fall, and what is a Scarecrows job? To scare crows. Perhaps because they are black, crows became associated with…
Little Red Riding Hood – Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
[Red’s mother packed a basked and sent Red through the woods with it to her grandmother’s house.] Picture Book Writers Often Allow Their Illustrations to Create the Setting: Hyman’s Written Creation of the Setting of Grandmother’s House “‘Oh, it’s a good fifteen minutes farther into the wood. Her house is the one by those three…
#MemoirFest Day 11: Read Washington Irving’s Snippets of Setting in Rip Van Winkle: Rewrite One of Your Settings
Washington Irving is considered as the Father of the Short Story, which began as an American literary form. His delightful story Rip Van Winkle is thought to have been the first American short story. In 1916, W. Patterson Atkinson said the following about the short story: “A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can…
#MemoirFest Day 12 – Character Development – Read Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and Rewrite One of Your Characters
Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 200 years ago, and he has left potential writers with at least two excellent stories for studying masterful storytelling and masterful development of both setting and the creation of characters. In another post, I examined Irving’s use of Setting in his story Rip…
#MemoirFest Day 10: Write about a Colorful or Odd Character that You Have Known
I grew up in a tiny town where everyone just almost everyone else, but no one seemed to know the lady who lived across the street from me, in the house that is colored orange. Every time that I saw that old lady, her eyes cut through me. She had the air of a wounded,…
#MemoirFest Day 11: Read about the Setting for Rip Van Winkle – Edit What You Wrote about Your Terrain
Washington Irving is considered as the Father of the Short Story, which began as an American literary form. His delightful story Rip Van Winkle is thought to have been the first American short story. In 1916, W. Patterson Atkinson said the following about the short story: “A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can…