Marian Blue
Write-a-Thon!
Member Info
Joined: June 15, 2017
Last Visited: July 24, 2017
Writer Team
Write-a-Thon Team: Star Geezers
On The Web
Website: www.blueudewritersservices.com/
Blog: www.sunbreakpress.com/
Writer Bio
Marian Blue’s award-winning writing has appeared internationally for 45 years in newspapers, magazines, and books, including her own book of poetry How Many Words for Rain. She has edited many publications (including Sea of Voices, Isle of Story, Southeast Writers Handbook, the online magazine One World Journeys, and Soundings Review–as founding editor). Blue has taught writing for community schools in Portland, Oregon; Old Dominion University in Virginia; and Writers Digest Schools. She also taught writing, literature, and communication for 20 years at Skagit Valley College, WA before retiring in December 2015. She currently writes and edits (through Blue & Ude Writers Services and Sunbreak Press) from her small farm on Whidbey Island, WA.
Writing Style
Eclectic
Writing Goal
Starting a new book that has been prowling my brain for, roughly, 2 decades. Needs to be written.
writing goal:
20000 words written
progress:
15650
funds raised:
$20.00
funds pledged:
$0.00 ($0.00 / unit)
$7,372.00 raised so far! Help us reach our goal of $15,000 by August 5!
As Vala reached for the organic kale–the organic aisle was the only one that wasn’t jammed, she noted then pushed down her disappointment–the grocery store’s automated misting spray kicked on, and, concurrently, a recording of tropical birds began. Her hand closed on the kale just as her eyes lost their focus and, all but blind, she felt the world slipping into colors and sounds swirling around her: the birds, water running, trees rustling–perhaps she made a sound, perhaps she grabbed at the counter–she didn’t know. She was nowhere and she was everywhere ...
