by Sandy Frykholm | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
A Harvard study published last year in the journal Science concluded what many have long assumed to be true: music is universal. Every society uses music, and it may inspire us to dance, worship, relax, or cry. But how can it inspire us to write? I turned to...
by Sandy Frykholm | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Image from Canva.com Artists of all kinds find inspiration in the natural world. They include painters like Van Gogh, photographers like Ansel Adams (and many since), and writers of poetry, essays, fiction, and more. An Esquire article last year claims we are living...
by Sandy Frykholm | Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Chocolate and strawberries. (Image from Canva.com) Author Joanne Harris spent her earliest years living above her grandparents’ sweet shop in Yorkshire. She spent her girlhood summers with her French grandparents in Brittany. Small wonder that she contrived a magical...
by Sandy Frykholm | Mar 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Castel del Monte, Apulia, Italy My inspiration Frederick II, Emperor and King in the thirteenth century, held a level of power and an attitude toward the church that earned him the title of Antichrist from Pope Gregory IX. Among his many gifts and accomplishments,...
by Sandy Frykholm | Aug 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Writing and publishing a book can be a long road, a road scattered with doubts and fears, and rutted with the bumps of life going on as you write. I worked steadily for about three years to write the story of The Drive in ’65, and a few months ago I entered a...
by Sandy Frykholm | May 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve been immersed in the world of 1965, writing about a 22,000 mile road trip and journey of discovery from May to late August of that year. In the course of research (yes, writers do research their own experiences!) the cultural icons and events of that year...
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