Characters live and die, and live again at my command, if I wish it so. Earth and Sea and all the elements of Nature bow before me. Lightening flashes from my finger-tips as the sky obeys my every whim. I am Prospera, the all-powerful, all-knowing sorceress, standing at the cliff’s edge, over-looking the sea. In the first scene, she is standing on the edge of a cliff, summoning the tempest, wearing a wonderful cloak and holding a staff.Īnd `twixt the green sea and the azured vault In it, she plays a female Prospero, Prospera, Shakespeare’s sorceress. There is a version of the Tempest starring Helen Mirren, filmed in Hawaii. I may never know how my words will effect someone, but God knows. And I hope, I pray, that reader finds comfort in my words, strength in my characters, insight in my stories. For I believe that this gift, this spark is given by God, and that power flows through my words to that reader. I write for that reader who wants/needs to escape this reality for a while, and shelter in a story.
I write because there is nothing better than hearing from a reader that I made them laugh, or cry, or kept them up until the wee hours because ‘I could not put the book down’. I write because I can, because somehow I have been given a gift and I must not waste that gift, no matter how much I doubt myself or my abilities.
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