Good day,
It's Goth Monday!
While scanning websites I located so interesting material.
Wikihow.com gives instructions on 'how to write Gothic Fiction;.http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Gothic-Fiction
Have you read this article? Do you agree? Disagree? Is there a template of excellent fiction?
I believe the elements in each genre are what a reader is hungry for. However, the storyline, can never be developed from a template.
What about the genre itself?
Has the genre evolved since "Dracula" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was written? Or, in your opinion, has it spun into an entirely 'un-gothic direction?
Is "American Gothic" the new Gothic?
Top Ten Gothic Films Agree?
Worst Gothic Films I liked 'Mary Reilly'. Even though I am not a Julia Roberts fan, I found the take on the story very thought provoking. I also felt that"Lady Frankenstein", it was a little disturbing (I have difficulty with Frankenstein and the abandonment issue evolving around of Victor and the Monster, anyway). However, I didn't think is should be on this list.
Readers, what are you thoughts?
Connie
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Monday, July 25, 2016
Monday, July 18, 2016
Goth Monday--Gothic Rose
All~
It's Goth Monday!
I located a website with a tutorial program (free) if you are interested in learning to sketch a Gothic rose.
I found this helpful, because I am not much of an artist. I like to add an additional touch when autographing my print books. http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/22325/1/1/how-to-draw-a-gothic-rose.htm
If you need additional tutoring (Connie is raising her hand), here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nUsb-C9o44
I located another site about Gothic Arcitecture. This site provided pictures and detailed information and photos of Gothic architecture. For those of us not inclined to visit overseas to verify specific details in our WIP. This site will provide a great way to complete that scene.
http://faculty.scf.edu/condorj/256/presentations/Gothic%20Constructions.pdf
Connie
It's Goth Monday!
I located a website with a tutorial program (free) if you are interested in learning to sketch a Gothic rose.
I found this helpful, because I am not much of an artist. I like to add an additional touch when autographing my print books. http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/22325/1/1/how-to-draw-a-gothic-rose.htm
If you need additional tutoring (Connie is raising her hand), here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nUsb-C9o44
I located another site about Gothic Arcitecture. This site provided pictures and detailed information and photos of Gothic architecture. For those of us not inclined to visit overseas to verify specific details in our WIP. This site will provide a great way to complete that scene.
http://faculty.scf.edu/condorj/256/presentations/Gothic%20Constructions.pdf
Connie
Monday, July 11, 2016
President's Message July 2016
Hello Fanciful GothRom Writers,
I hope everyone is having a fabulous start to their summer. It’s July many of us (though not I) will be in San Diego at RWA Nationals Conference, July 13 – 16.
I would encourage you all to take advantage of the many opportunities we have for getting our chapter in social media. As you know from my email, are blog site, Facebook and Twitter accounts are up and running. If you are interested in writing a weekly/monthly article for our blog, please contact me.
As always fellow authors, thank you for all that you have done and continue to do. Your commitment to excellence is what keeps GothRom/RWA a growing chapter. Our sincerest thanks for being a part of this chapter where our motto is: “To encourage authors of Gothic romance through networking, inspiration, and provide a support network for those authors while submitting their work.”
With kind affection,
Connie Vines
I hope everyone is having a fabulous start to their summer. It’s July many of us (though not I) will be in San Diego at RWA Nationals Conference, July 13 – 16.
I would encourage you all to take advantage of the many opportunities we have for getting our chapter in social media. As you know from my email, are blog site, Facebook and Twitter accounts are up and running. If you are interested in writing a weekly/monthly article for our blog, please contact me.
As always fellow authors, thank you for all that you have done and continue to do. Your commitment to excellence is what keeps GothRom/RWA a growing chapter. Our sincerest thanks for being a part of this chapter where our motto is: “To encourage authors of Gothic romance through networking, inspiration, and provide a support network for those authors while submitting their work.”
With kind affection,
Connie Vines
Monday, January 4, 2016
President's Message for Janurary 2016
Hello GothRom!
I do hope your Holiday season was filled with love and laughter.
It is now 2016! Can you believe it? I wanted to take this time to thank each one of you for your dedication to GothRom. Our chapter continues to grow and it couldn’t do that without our dedicated volunteers and members in general.
GothRom RWA where our motto is: “To encourage authors of gothic romance through networking, and to provide inspiration and a support for publication."
Happy New Year and may we all have a blessed year!
Best,
Connie Vines
Monday, December 28, 2015
Goth Monday
A long walk down a dark corridor.
You shiver in your delicate nightgown, the ruffles fluttering. A draft makes the flames of the candles snap and dim, your fist so tightly clenched around the silver candelabra that your knuckles ache.
Glancing out the window through a veil of fog mooting the shimmer of the rising sun,
The sent of damp wood, earthy clay, and the scent of rain. Exactly what you’d expect a haunted manor house to smell like, actually.
What was that sound you heard?
The clatter of china? Muffled footsteps?
Do to the holiday season, I thought I'd add a light touch to our Goth Monday.
Which brings us to this Monday's topic:
Tea and Elevenses
Paddington Bear and The Wind in the Willows will probably have heard of such English meals as Morning Tea, Afternoon Tea and some mysterious snack called ‘Elevenses’.
What are they?
These typically light meals became popular among the English upper-and-middle classes during the Victorian era. Changing social and work-habits meant that mealtimes changed drastically. Women of the well-to-do classes would go visiting. It was the man’s job to earn a living. It was the woman’s job to make all the social connections.
Morning tea and afternoon tea centered around tea, naturally. This beverage was once so rare and expensive, women kept their tea-caddies locked and had the keys with them at all times. But with the opening of China in the 1850s, the import of Chinese and Indian teas became cheaper and it was now available to a much wider range of people.
Tea was designed to be light, refined, and relaxed. Enjoyed with close friends and relations, or business-partners and colleagues. Tea consisted of small cakes, biscuits, and sandwiches – and yes, the classic cucumber-sandwich. Light snacks not designed to fill you up, but to distract from hunger until the main meals of the day,
Instead of morning tea, one might have ‘elevenses’, taken, as the name suggests, around ten or eleven o’clock in the morning. Since the Industrial Revolution forced people to wake up earlier and eat breakfast earlier (six or seven or eight in the morning), by midday, they could be especially hungry. Elevenses or morning tea was designed as a light snack, to be enjoyed halfway between breakfast and lunch.
You shiver in your delicate nightgown, the ruffles fluttering. A draft makes the flames of the candles snap and dim, your fist so tightly clenched around the silver candelabra that your knuckles ache.
Glancing out the window through a veil of fog mooting the shimmer of the rising sun,
The sent of damp wood, earthy clay, and the scent of rain. Exactly what you’d expect a haunted manor house to smell like, actually.
What was that sound you heard?
The clatter of china? Muffled footsteps?
Do to the holiday season, I thought I'd add a light touch to our Goth Monday.
Which brings us to this Monday's topic:
Tea and Elevenses
Paddington Bear and The Wind in the Willows will probably have heard of such English meals as Morning Tea, Afternoon Tea and some mysterious snack called ‘Elevenses’.
What are they?
These typically light meals became popular among the English upper-and-middle classes during the Victorian era. Changing social and work-habits meant that mealtimes changed drastically. Women of the well-to-do classes would go visiting. It was the man’s job to earn a living. It was the woman’s job to make all the social connections.
Morning tea and afternoon tea centered around tea, naturally. This beverage was once so rare and expensive, women kept their tea-caddies locked and had the keys with them at all times. But with the opening of China in the 1850s, the import of Chinese and Indian teas became cheaper and it was now available to a much wider range of people.
Tea was designed to be light, refined, and relaxed. Enjoyed with close friends and relations, or business-partners and colleagues. Tea consisted of small cakes, biscuits, and sandwiches – and yes, the classic cucumber-sandwich. Light snacks not designed to fill you up, but to distract from hunger until the main meals of the day,
Instead of morning tea, one might have ‘elevenses’, taken, as the name suggests, around ten or eleven o’clock in the morning. Since the Industrial Revolution forced people to wake up earlier and eat breakfast earlier (six or seven or eight in the morning), by midday, they could be especially hungry. Elevenses or morning tea was designed as a light snack, to be enjoyed halfway between breakfast and lunch.
Dear reader, next Goth Monday will feature apothecary in Gothic literature.
Connie
Sunday, December 13, 2015
The President's Message
I do hope you have all had a wonderful start to December.
Here is southern California the weather is cold, and tonight the much need rain is a blessed event from the heavens!
This month is an busy month for our members. Not only do we have our very own chapter bog here on blogger,com but we have a newly created Facebook page, and we will soon be debuting on Twitter!
We are a growing chapter, and becoming more and more active in social media.
We are also looking for a member to volunteer for the vice president position of our chapter for 2016. Carmen will be stepping down in the near future and will be missed during our brain-storming sessions.
As always, it it a pleasure to hear of our members successes and online events and to interact with our talented authors, both published and pre-published.
I would like to thank my fellow board members: Anna Taylor Sweringen and Nikki Koekenbacker for their dedication and continued service to GothRom.
Once again, my fellow authors, thank you for all that you do and your commitment to GothRom/RWA.
Remember a full moon will light up the night sky on Christmas for the first time since 1977. The celestial phenomenon won't happen again on Christmas until 2034. The full moon will reach its peak at 6:00 a.m. E.T., according to ABC.
Sidebar: The last full moon of the year in December is called the Full Cold Moon, although it is also known as the Moon before Yule, according to the Farmers' Almanac.
Sounds like the perfect setting for a Goth Romance, doesn't it?
Connie
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