tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post6361020904640757167..comments2024-03-27T23:13:43.597-05:00Comments on Prairie Rose Publications: Inspiration and Painted Pony BooksLivia J Washburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958199886826207363noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-84709155917863578652014-05-28T11:38:33.551-05:002014-05-28T11:38:33.551-05:00Hey Sara, I'm sorry to be late. Your real life...Hey Sara, I'm sorry to be late. Your real life certainly puts some depth in the stories you write. I've never heard of Indian Emily, so it will all be new to me.<br />I don't know that I've ever been inspired by legends, but I'm definitely inspired by family history and personal experiences. Some stories come from things I've seen or accounts told to me by people I've Sarah J. McNealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17749991094677728042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-84628987506578681532014-05-27T16:41:51.666-05:002014-05-27T16:41:51.666-05:00Ahhh precognition. That IS an amazing source of in...Ahhh precognition. That IS an amazing source of inspiration! Your new series sounds as hooking as your other ones! I can't wait to check it out!Sara Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519801029696101409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-33384715845044199262014-05-27T16:34:11.499-05:002014-05-27T16:34:11.499-05:00Kaye, I think you're awesome!! I wrote a piece...Kaye, I think you're awesome!! I wrote a piece once on seducing the muse and jokingly (somewhat) said that I could seduce my muse then it would sit and wait for me on my giant pile of mutating laundry until I had a free moment to open the laptop haha! Your muse sounds like it likes to play tricks ;-)Sara Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519801029696101409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-75260253989553655242014-05-27T16:31:51.482-05:002014-05-27T16:31:51.482-05:00How awesome that you have a book that hits so clos...How awesome that you have a book that hits so close to (my) home! In what part of Texas do you hang up your hat? We are out in the oilfields of the Permian Basin. <br /><br />Thank you for your sweet compliment. They are trying to phase Emily out and just brand her a legend that never actually lived but was fabricated through Army post legend. However I can't cotton to that idea. Indian Em&Sara Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519801029696101409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-55538687007737472282014-05-27T16:28:01.819-05:002014-05-27T16:28:01.819-05:00Hi Caroline! Same here. It's nice when we get ...Hi Caroline! Same here. It's nice when we get to control the ending. That is pretty much why I started A Heart on Hold and put the characters through what I put them through (which is markedly similar to what my husband was going through in Afghanistan . . .) so I could control the ending . . . no matter what ending I was destined to be dealt in real life.Sara Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519801029696101409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-80266112741580329612014-05-27T16:23:53.087-05:002014-05-27T16:23:53.087-05:00Thank you for your response, Doris :-) I share you...Thank you for your response, Doris :-) I share your passion for history. And oh, what inspiration you must have from your life's work! How neat that you write plays! I hope to dabble in that some day, myself!Sara Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519801029696101409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-12886258962114995132014-05-27T16:20:14.472-05:002014-05-27T16:20:14.472-05:00Hey Cheryl! I'm running on Indian Time lately....Hey Cheryl! I'm running on Indian Time lately. That sounds like a BEAUTIFUL STORY!!! Is The Gunfighter's Girl going to be in the PRP Christmas Anthology? I'm so glad you loved The Calling. The awesome lady who sells us sno cones told me she finished it and passed her copy to another lady at her church and they plan to do a Bible School lesson around the last sermon in the book! I Sara Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519801029696101409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-16057737375079731202014-05-27T11:42:43.649-05:002014-05-27T11:42:43.649-05:00Great topic, Sarah! Inspiration comes from a lot o...Great topic, Sarah! Inspiration comes from a lot of different sources for me. My first book was originally inspired by reading about the Chicago Fire of 1871, and later by memories of precognitive dreams I had in years past. Those dreams inspired the supernatural elements in my whole Texas Devlins trilogy, and still influences my writing.<br /><br />Other inspiration stems from movies (Red River,Lyn Hornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596495172490672271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-26517221045698825352014-05-26T19:24:39.965-05:002014-05-26T19:24:39.965-05:00Sara,
For me, inspiration is fickle. I can sit a...Sara, <br /><br />For me, inspiration is fickle. I can sit at my computer with my fingers poised to click away on the keyboard... and nothing happens. For days on end, I can't write my way out of a wet paper bag. Then a passing comment, an image on a poster in a restaurant, a song lyric I've heard a hundred times opens the flood gate, and I can't write fast enough. <br /><br />*Kaye Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13530735658588595790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-60371939643281817512014-05-26T19:23:18.051-05:002014-05-26T19:23:18.051-05:00Cheryl, I love me some Marty Robbins anytime, day ...Cheryl, I love me some Marty Robbins anytime, day or night. ;-) I remember clearly--and it still brings a tear--where I was when I heard he'd died. I was listening to the radio while I driving on the interstate around Cleveland, Ohio. The DJ came on and announced his death. The DJ could barely get the words out because he was crying so hard. I pulled over and cried, too. ;-(Kaye Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13530735658588595790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-80930829570045581342014-05-26T19:16:43.381-05:002014-05-26T19:16:43.381-05:00Hi, Sara. Yes, I know about Indian Emily. I have a...Hi, Sara. Yes, I know about Indian Emily. I have a book titled Tales From Out Yonder, one of a collection of weird books about weird Texas Stories I own. I'm glad you're using Indian Emily in a story..otherwise, I fear no one except you, me, and the author of Tales From Out Yonder know about her. Was she truly a heroine? Heck we don't know. But don't we love the story?<br />Glad Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16272417114895975742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-3274555383379249412014-05-26T18:01:25.961-05:002014-05-26T18:01:25.961-05:00Sara, You are a busy woman. I have used an event a...Sara, You are a busy woman. I have used an event as inspiration, though the outcome is nothing like the event that inspired the story. Family stories and stories from friends have inspired me. Isn't writing a great job?Caroline Clemmonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14914658854159456335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-64545269688460112912014-05-26T17:45:04.613-05:002014-05-26T17:45:04.613-05:00What a great selection and your sources of inspira...What a great selection and your sources of inspiration and inspirational themselves. <br /><br />My writing comes from love of history and also the teens/children I worked with in my career. The resilance of those troubled children was an inspiration and a challenge. While I write non-fiction, I also have written plays and short stories (there is also novel based on a historic event.) and Renaissance Womenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09045401344374224512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-88344534725121985052014-05-26T17:06:23.842-05:002014-05-26T17:06:23.842-05:00Hi Sara! Wow you have a lot of different kinds of ...Hi Sara! Wow you have a lot of different kinds of inspiration. I guess we all do, if we think of it. I, too, was inspired by a song to write a story--Scarlet Ribbons, the old folk song, so beautifully performed by Harry Belafonte, inspired me to write The Gunfighter's Girl. The story I wrote around that song was one of a gunfighter who had left his young girlfriend alone and pregnant-- thoughCheryl Piersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18116526340220274282noreply@blogger.com