tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post1774947966667308802..comments2024-02-03T00:25:31.402-05:00Comments on Life's an art!: The Genealogy of StoryFaith E. Houghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03823750019164801104noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post-50854811256295212322011-01-09T10:28:56.797-05:002011-01-09T10:28:56.797-05:00I don't write horror, but I was inspired by St...I don't write horror, but I was inspired by Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. <br /><br />Great post. I love the writerly genealogy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post-88527977964279526932011-01-05T20:14:19.848-05:002011-01-05T20:14:19.848-05:00Thanks for stopping by my blog!
This is a really ...Thanks for stopping by my blog!<br /><br />This is a really interesting post! I've thought about it before, but never with those terms. I love this! I would definitely list J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien in my "family tree" though I'm afraid I probably don't write half as well as either of them. I also draw a lot from Megan Whalen Turner and Edgar Allan Poe. :)amber colleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05874229679458717329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post-9305990499044982022011-01-01T02:09:51.126-05:002011-01-01T02:09:51.126-05:00I love this concept of a literary family tree! Is...I love this concept of a literary family tree! Isn't that exactly the truth? For it was JK Rowling that inspired me to write - plain and simple. Isn't it a lovely thought - that perhaps some day we will inspire other future writers to join us?Kiki Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952786303617206818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post-29885024865613337612010-12-31T12:43:19.745-05:002010-12-31T12:43:19.745-05:00Happy New Year, Faith!!! May 2011 be your best yea...Happy New Year, Faith!!! May 2011 be your best year yet!Laura S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13934230198562773803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post-34749834498354529702010-12-30T17:22:38.122-05:002010-12-30T17:22:38.122-05:00Yes, this is fun to think about, isn't it? On ...Yes, this is fun to think about, isn't it? On both sides of the family, I too, have discovered writers -- my father has written engineering textbooks and some short stories and essays. On his side, I disovered Saguna: the first autobiographical novel in English by an Indian woman by Krupabai Satthianadhan (she's my great-great-something). The book is fascinating reading as it captures the tensions between the generations as well a the social/political arena since the family has recently converted to Christianity.<br /><br />My mother wrote lovely letters and poetry and essays and the ones in Marathi are all lost to me since I can no longer read it (well I can read, but not understand the nuances anymore). Her father was a priest so wrote a lot of homilies ... My uncle is a priest as well, so he writes a lot of homilies too. I guess preachers have to write a lot. Oh, they're Episcopal and I did sort of grow up in the church.<br /><br />But as to my writing "fathers and mothers" they are: Enid Blyton, Charles Dickens, Somerset Maughm, and the Bible itself. Bible stories seeped into my cells well before I learned to read and my mother told them very dramatically. In fact, if you look at good stories, they can all be reduced to Creation, Fall, and Redemption.<br /><br />Thanks for brining back all these wonderful memories Faith.Vijayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07876606729146077830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post-18889850592763813202010-12-30T14:15:03.537-05:002010-12-30T14:15:03.537-05:00We just might be cousins! LMMontgomery & Tolke...We just might be cousins! LMMontgomery & Tolkein are 2 of my abolute faves! I'd also have to add in Agatha Christie, Anne McCaffrey & Nora Roberts/JD Robb :)Jemi Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214408467456320167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185330878180221800.post-6213708136878134532010-12-29T22:08:13.131-05:002010-12-29T22:08:13.131-05:00What a great post!! I never thought of geneology i...What a great post!! I never thought of geneology in this way. I'm not sure who my actual inspirations are, though I love so many authors. <br /><br />Your great-grandmother,Elizabeth Agatha End, sounds like a character. Perhaps both real and in a future, fictional sense?<br /><br />My great-aunt, Annie Laurie Williams, and her husband, Maurice Crain, were literary agents for writers such as John Steinbeck and Harper Lee. Boy what I wouldn't give to be able to talk and learn from them now.Paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452401401599690217noreply@blogger.com