Pauline Evanosky

  Created by Pauline in Canva An interesting thing happens when I write fiction. The characters talk back to me. Well, they aren’t belligerent or anything like that. They just have opinions about things. I spent part of this morning talking to Gloria, my lead female character in the piece of fiction I’ll be writing in November. I suppose you might call this the equivalent of a vacation for anybody else, but I am looking forward to it. Will it ever be published? I don’t know. I’m tending toward doubtful, but you never know. Why am I doing this? Well, I love reading fiction. Old fiction, contemporary fiction. Just all kinds. I’ve not written much of it, though. So, this will be mostly new for me. Anyway, I was asking Gloria’s opinion on the story, on names, on possible settings. The idea, with this book, is to have two people who keep reincarnating together. It’s like they can’t get away from each other. They also love each other, but in this story, they’re going to be coming bac...

  Created with the help of Spirit in Canva by the author How this title came to me, I do not remember. At the time, it was significant. Now, I cannot remember. Does it matter? I don’t think so. Perhaps, this might be thought of as an exercise in writing. A teacher could think up any number of likely titles for a short essay, perhaps printed on a piece of colored paper. Would it need to be the same piece of paper? I’m not sure how random the game should be. Technically, this would be an assignment, yet even I, a 70-year-old lady, feel the fun that lies around this lesson is more of a game-like nature than that of an academic assignment. Let me ask you: would you prefer candy or carrots? Enthusiasm for anything is worth more in terms of getting something done rather than grousing around about it. If fire eating were a fun thing, then everybody would be doing it. Right? I’m not sure that’s a good example. I can hear my husband’s mother saying, “If your friends think it’s a goo...

  Created by Pauline in Canva                                                       Okay, it’s on my mind right now because in a few days, five to be exact, I’m going to start writing a book. The original rules at NaNoWriMo – which is now defunct – were that you write your heart out in November on a novel. Quickly, rushed, no holding back. The goal was not only a novel, but 50,000 words. Okay, so a novel is likely to be more than 50,000 words, but you do the best you can on this first stab. You will be doing rewrites as time goes by, and you move into either finishing it, and with the polishing and editing that happens after November has come and gone. When I first started doing the November challenges with NaNo, I could hardly conceive of writing that much in a month. Interestingly, among all the platforms I write on the internet now (I’ll lis...

  Created in Canva by Pauline Saying you are a writer without any books to point to is sort of lame. I’m one of those people. However, this is the year that I finally got my own author’s website. Right now, it isn’t much, but I’m turning over new leaves left and right and have been on a relatively strict writing regimen. I used to think that a writer needed ideas and a great story from somewhere outside of themselves. Like I could see myself staring off into a beautiful sky and suddenly, abruptly start pounding out the first draft of something that would inevitably end up as a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Nope, that doesn’t work. Writing is noticing things. It’s being able to grab onto a fragment and then turn it into a whole 20 yards of beautiful material. Spinning words out of dreams. Sounds like a good title. I’ll use it for this piece. Writing is also believing in yourself. I went for many years as a wanna-be writer. As I am generally uncomfortable in large groups, I wo...

Created by Pauline in Canva I know traditionally we take stock at the beginning of every year. It is not yet January 1st, and I feel the need to take stock sooner. The reason for this is that I feel the march of time more so than I did when I was 27 years old. Now, I am 70 years old, and the one thing, right now, that I regret is that I haven’t published any books. To that end, I need to take stock more than once a year, and I need to get busy on getting some books published. I tend to see problems where none actually exist. It’s like I deliberately put bumps in the road that are going to jar my teeth once I roll over them. I think that’s the idea of life. You’re supposed to have bumps and bruises. Maybe that’s the only way you can learn to ride a bicycle. Without losing face. Okay, it’s a deal I’m making with myself. I will post a list of five things that I want to do that I really want to do. Have them on my wall. Promise myself that I will look at them every day and then w...

  Created by Pauline in Canva Early days yet, but I wanted to get a start on my new Author's Website. Eventually, I will hook up my URL, PaulineEvanosky.com, to the blogspot ThisIsPaulineEvanosky.Blogspot.com. Which has been done as of 10/25/25. This is something I've been wrestling with on my other website www.TalkingtoSpirit.com. Mostly that works, but there are some aspects of it that are not working. My lessons in not panicking, I suppose. So, I'm a writer. I've been a writer, or at least I've enjoyed writing, since my teenage years. Never much, nothing that I ever wanted to show people, and actually, not something I believed I could do. It wasn't until I retired in 2016 that I realized I had a shot at being a writer. Finally.  It's been a long road. Mostly, it was about me learning to believe in myself.  To write, you need to write. It sounds simplistic, but it is necessary. It's also true that the first things you write are dumb. It's dishwater...