“CREATIVITY COMES CREEPING”
BY LEANNE HERRERA
Late
at night when the house is quiet, the kids are sleeping and my husband is a few
feet away sawing logs, inspiration strikes and I feel the need to record it
all. The story is there in a small portion of my brain and it begins to explode
through my fingertips onto a blank word document. Soon I realize that I have
filled the page up. Then I have to go back and correct the places where my
brain has typed the story faster than my hands ever could. This obviously
leaves gaps in the stories I write. Sometimes I do not find them unless I read
them aloud to someone else.
If no one is awake when I feel the
need to do this, I often seek my online friends to just listen for a few
minutes to me stutter and stammer through a story. If my husband is awake he
becomes my listener. My children however will not read or listen to anything I
write, because I am old. At least that is what they tell me. I however think
that, if they read it or listen to it and actually enjoy it, that they think it
will make them less cool than they are, so they just avoid the stories.
What is funny about this is that I
generally include something about them in each story. It could be a picture on
the cover that I have taken of them for one of my art classes, or it could be
that one of the background characters has their personality or look or
something. They know this but still refuse to read or listen to anything I have
written. I love my daughters but they are typical teenagers, nothing a parent
says or does can be cool, what they do not realize is that this attitude, just
fuels more late night writing and is often the inspiration behind the stories
in one way or another.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Leanne
Herrera is a mother and grandmother with a BFA in ceramics sculpture. She has
always loved telling stories, whether it be in the form of her art, poetry or
the written word. She has a love for books and animals. She has traveled the
world, first with her father when he was in the military and then with her
husband of twenty years who was also in the military. Right now she lives in
Florida but one day hopes to own a farm with lots of rescue animals, where she
can write and throw clay.
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“MIRROR BOUND”
She came home to settle her great
grandmothers affairs and figure out her own life. Finding out that her
grandmother left her everything including magic powers she forgot to unbind
before her death. Anna finds someone to love amidst the war against the woman
that was supposed to love her and her twin sister. The mother goddess helps her
gain her magic. Can Anna stop her mother before her mother stops her?
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