by Dorothy Best | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
Sometime in the 1980s I remember reading an interview with Paul McCartney, legendary musician and songwriter, about his songwriting process. In preparation for this essay I’ve done a deep dive on the internet to find that article. Unfortunately, it has remained hidden...
by Dorothy Best | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
Stream of consciousness writing is the doodling of writing which may include doodling along the margins, and even sketches reaching behind the words. SCW is journaling without stopping. Sometimes during intense SCW my words become connected, I don’t even lift...
by Dorothy Best | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
Although the mermaids insisted I start writing their stories in 2004, an interest in mermaids had already infiltrated my life, probably around 1992. That’s when I purchased my first statuette, a lovely Mexican terra-cotta mermaid to join the menagerie of shaped...
by Dorothy Best | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
The first time I wrote about mermaids was in 1998 while taking a class called Women and Oral Tradition at the University of New Mexico. The essay was our first assignment designed by the professor to figure out what level of writing skills the class had while giving...
