Author Archives: Jacinta Meredith

I must have an old soul. Because I have never run into current artists that make my heart ache with emotion the way Barry Manilow and Air Supply’s songs do. Or maybe I just have a simple soul. All it takes is a melancholy tune and mournfully hopeful words to make me cry, and halfContinueContinue reading “Barry Manilow”

I decided to try to do a short story fantasy writing contest, due on June 30. This is as far as I have gotten. 😛 I am sure I will figure out where to go from here – eventually. 😛 The person who does not occasionally dream of leaving this world is non-existent. And very occasionallyContinueContinue reading “Beginning of a story”

So, I found this “writing exercise”: A plane crashes into the sea. Most of the passengers escape with inflatable lifeboats but they do not board them correctly. Your character ends up on a lifeboat that holds eight people but there are twelve people on it, and it’s sinking. Your character can either throw four peopleContinueContinue reading “Blue Sky”

Once upon a time, there was a village, le village de rêves. It was tucked far back in the mountains of California. The Sierra Nevada mountains, when one thinks of them, generally bring about feelings of cold beauty, but in the tiny town, tucked in a small valley in their midst, there was nothing butContinueContinue reading “NaNo Novel beginning?”