Don't you just want to eat some words up?
Kim Karras from Confessions of a Bibliophile writes some of the yummiest stuff that I have read for a long time (might have something to do with my current diet of Goosebumps.) I LOVE her writing!
So when Jolene created a blogfest where we pick five lines from our current WIP that we love I immediately thought about Kim and her WIP. With her permission I want to share some of my favorites.
The children had scattered like jacks the moment she and Ms. Jackson had ushered them outside.
She had made a tent of her nightgown by pulling it over her knees and tucking the hem under her toes. The pony printed across the front of the gown was stretched so taut it was about to be drawn and quartered.
She closed her eyes and with a sincerity bordering on ferocity made her wish.
She couldn’t have conceived of the fact that the face she had gazed on since birth was finite, just as she couldn’t have imagined that time, that proceeded before her in a lazy, prodigal way, was finite, that its quality would alter as she aged, that it would quicken and accelerate and, eventually, run out altogether.
In all the world, there was nothing more serene than the face of a sleeping child.
Don't you just love her already? And you don't even know what the story is about yet.
Kim to me is like a painter. She paints beautiful pictures with words and one day her work will be appreciated as art in the truest sense. If that day is tomorrow or after she passes, I don't know. But I do know that she is creating something she should be proud of. She has a gift.
P.S. Kim, I'm not predicting your demise or bad fortune in the publishing industry. I'm just making a point.
Totally love her already! Gorgeous passages; this has really inspired me to go back to my WIP with this as a standard to work to!
ReplyDeleteFabulous passages, nice job. Love the voice.
ReplyDeleteThat's great! I love description of time. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI agree. She has a gift:-)
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I'm so glad to have found your fun blog. I'm now following and I hope you'll stop by my blog when you have a chance http://writinginwonderland.blogspot.com/ I look forward to reading more from you. I'm off to check out your blogfest info and visit the blog you mentioned. Happy writing!
ReplyDeleteLove the nightgown quote and the wish, beautifully eloquent
ReplyDeleteI would like to read more. I love the descriptions of the children already!
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These are beautiful! Thanks for sharing them, I love seeing snippets of other writer's work.
ReplyDeleteThey're all great but I love number 2. WOW
ReplyDeleteMy personal fave is number 5, though I love the first one too.
ReplyDeleteI have just entered your blogfest and didn't know where to post the comment.
ReplyDeleteShelly invited me to join.
Yvonne.
Great lines! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Shelly. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteBeing a poet myself, I do 'so' love a ink-stress who can turn a phrase!...I'm just visiting. I followed a link and found you. Now...I'm off to look around a bit. :-) Hello!
ReplyDeleteOh, these are lovely. I love the jacks metaphor and the passage about time. It's beautiful! Thank you Shelly and Kim for sharing these!
ReplyDeleteThese are really good! Thank you for sharing them.
ReplyDeleteHow sweet of you to use a friend's work! Good stuff, I see why you like it!
ReplyDeleteShe is just like a painter! I was thinking that, then you said it! Funny.
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I am impressed with her prose. Roger Zelazny inspired me in a similar way, Roland
ReplyDeleteLove the excerpts!
ReplyDeleteLovin' the imagery of the nightgown. I can remember doing that as a child.
ReplyDeleteIn all the world, there was nothing more serene than the face of a sleeping child.
So beautiful and so true!
Beautiful turn of words! I loved 'the children had scattered like jacks'.
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