Tammy's Tuesday Trio
A Celebration of Llama Tuesday!
It is a frigid Tuesday here in the Midwest. The days have been filled with reading, writing, fires, and Zoom meetings!
I have many books I am dipping into this week which has been fun. A lot of new books have come onto my radar as well and I have been downloading samples on my Kindle.
The Bradbury Trio [reading a poem, an essay, and a story every day] fuels my writing.
This trio structure inspires me to write after I read.
Good Words In = Good Words Out
My wish is for your reading to engage you in a way that leads to new writing!
Poem: Turing Test
This poem is one that I am using as an inspiration for form. This poem reminds me of a Sara Lippmann prompt where you write the story in 3 word sentences.
Story: The Bee and The Orange Tree - a French Fairytale
Essay: Jenny Offill Essay
This is an older article from 2020. I enjoyed Jenny’s WEATHER novel and it was recommended to me from Nina LaCour when I was in her Slow Novel class.
What will these pieces inspire you to write!?
Happy Llama Tuesday!
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is currently working on a short story collection. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
Just read The Bee and the Orange, thanks for the rec! I was going through old material last night and *literally* re-read a piece titled The Rose and the Toadstool. (I half-remembered it, but didn't remember that I'd turned it into a punchline at the end. Oh, Steve! Why does everything have to be a joke?)
That's so cool! I did not know these authors and I've loved and studied fairy tales, including the classique French ones and this one is new to me! What inspired me to write this morning was the white on white effect of the cloudy morning sky on the huge snowbanks in front of my house in Quebec where we've had a ton and more to come. There is a playground out front with huge oak trees that with the trees on the street sketch an urban forest. I like the graphic details of this all.