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Saturday, January 03, 2026

Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.

How's the New Year?

Been a few days. A quick assessment is in order.

Hope all's well.

The very soon full moon through the window on the tablet as I write to you.

Another verse of Colore dropped last night.

There's still some arranging of parts going on behind the scenes with the author.

(Anytime I speak of myself in the third person you know things are quite serious.)

Colore is not a novel. Poets (O/) don't write novels. If a poet wants to tell a story, we write an Epic.

A Freeverse Epic may, at times, resemble a novel, but there are distinctions.

In the world of writing, the difference is glaring. Writing teachers get ready their red pens to write in the margins, "Show. Don't tell."

But an Epic is told.

Think of it like this: The guy (third person again... serious) who writes Wonderfell is telling you a story.

Another helpful reason for this journal, in terms of an Epic, it helps to know your narrator. O/

Thanks for getting to know me.

So that's how the days of late go for me: Working on stretching genres to best express a message of Hope to you.

"Couldn't you just write the main story as a novel, Wynn?"
-Reader With an Excellent Question

Yes, but the point would not be fully expressed.

Shakespeare's got his play within a play. I'm working on a story, stories actually, within a story.

Moral tales juxtaposed to life today to remind us of the transformative power of Story in all our lives.

The notion is that the stories we feed ourselves everyday aren't giving us our best results. Our Nation is falling apart because our stories aren't serving what's best about us. A tale where the villain wins is a cool concept, but a failure of a story.

Art imitates Life, certainly; but the quality of our lives, our full emotional experience, can only ever be as good as our Art allows.

Until we have words or images to define our experience, we can't fully experience it.

This is what Art does: Shows us The World in a new light to help us better understand our own experience. And because there's a better understanding our day to day lives are richer, fuller, more easily expressed.

Art is not entertainment; it's the tool we use to shape our lives.

Reading a 'good' book, or watching a 'good' movie, reaffirms for you your feelings of what it means to be alive.

Experiencing a great book or film expands your awareness of what is possible to experience.

Seeing a great painting allows you to see more.

So I work in hopes to help us better see.

As always, thank you for reading, take care, and make wonderful this wonderful day.