who’s that girl?
Soulful future author or freaky Victorian child?
Both.
This freckle-faced girl is Lucy Maud Montgomery: Canadian, teacher, tortured optimist, dutiful preacher’s wife, “passionate friend,” and author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series.
We’re hanging out for the next week as I plunge into the writing process, on which Maud had this to say:
For five months I got up at six o’clock and got dressed by the lamplight. The fire would not yet be on. The house was very cold but I would put on a heavy coat, sit with my feet up to keep them from freezing and with fingers so cramped that I could scarcely hold a pen. I would write my “stunt” for the day. Sometimes it would be a poem in which I would carol blithely of blue skies and rippling brooks and flowery meads! Then I would thaw out my hands, eat breakfast and go to school.
When people say to me, as they occasionally do, ‘Oh how I envy your gift, how I wish I could write as you do’, I am inclined to wonder, with some inward amusement, how much they would have envied me on those dark, cold, winter mornings of my apprenticeship.
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Erin –
You visit my blog; I’ll visit yours! This is cool – I am even more excited about your book.
My blog is also actually my “blook”. Loving the Tasmanian Devil is a full manuscript that I currently sending out while still looking for an agent. I have posted a few chapters (the Amherst one is not part of it) but some of my earlier posts.
I will let my Haven Kimmel fan-friends know about this blog – they ARE your readers. We had an on-going discussion over whether a person was a Laura Ingalls lover or an Anne of Green Gables lover and whether it was possible to be both.
Best of luck with the book -you are light years ahead of me in this process.
Maureen Bartlett
Thanks, Maureen, and welcome to anyone visiting from Haven Kimmel’s site!
I passionately believe that one can be both a Laura Ingalls lover AND an Anne of Green Gables fan.
- Erin
Oh my – yes, Maureen’s recommendation is faultless.
I love the honor you give to that work ethic . . . of Maud, especially. I’ve written about this phenom. too – that success only follows the hard work. The ideas/inspirations follow the way as you open the doors and windows and give them the time to mature.
I don’t WAIT for inspiration to get to work. I work for the inspiration to have a venue.
Brilliant! I am looking forward to further exploring your blog . . . duly impressed!
Thanks so much, Sher!
My next post will actually be about the history of getting this book to market…talk about hard work!