Fairy Tales and Offices

What do you picture when you hear a fairy tale? The beautiful maidens that dance across the pages with grace and flair? Or the princes who ride on white steeds and save the day?

A few months ago I decided to picture-ify three fairy tales for a friend of mine, Hanna from I'll Name My Typewriter After the Moon.

Beauty and the Beast

Snow White

Little Red Riding Hood

We are both crazy for fairy tales and would probably live in them if we could, so we both hung these photos over our desks. Hopefully they will help the inspiration flow.


My desk with the three photos in the magnet board in the corner, next to my inspiration wall.






And Hanna's desk. You can tell she spends a lot of time there pouring herself onto pages. It's a well-lived desk.






So tell me, what do you imagine when you read fairy tales?

Books and the Movies About Them

I have a love affair with movies. It's not a secret, I have tons of DVDs sitting upstairs that I watch over and over again. I have movies on my external hard drive, movies on a flash drive, movies on my computer. It's certainly a faster escape than a book, usually not better, but simpler.

I also love mixing my obsessions. So whenever I hear of a movie coming out that's about a book, I read the book. This past week I read Julie and Julia by Julie Powell. I've seen the movie before, but the idea of the book intrigued me so I picked it up. It was very good. Very down to earth and strong and straight forward. She's brash and wonderfully refreshing.

The movie is a great escape, but it certainly tones Julie down. Besides the fact that it presents more of Julia Child than we get in the book. I've watched it twice now and each time it has given me this drive to go write a book. So I sit and write for a while afterward. We'll see where this inspiration leads.

Do you get inspiration from movies? Or from something else in daily life?

Patrick Henry Hughes, Musician, Inspiration

It's people like this that make life worth living.



Sorry that I missed Word of the Week. Albert and I were in Vienna for the three-day weekend. It was enjoyable but too long for the one city. I'll have some pictures later this week. I hope you enjoy this video, it certainly inspires me.