Welcome to the Periphery

 Home of Constance Brewer

 

I am a writer of poetry, speculative fiction, the occasional history fic, and essays - both personal and impersonal. When you live on the outskirts of civilization, objects in the rearview mirror are a bit more distant, the horizon a little closer. Ideas appear in cumulonimbus clouds, as surface tension on the water of life, or even on the mudflaps of a dual wheel pickup. Life on the Periphery is never without its oddities, surrealness, and idiosyncrasies.

 

I like it that way...

 

 

A quick tour of my website and all the oddball things you can find.

Writing - Under the Fiction link, short summaries, and the odd excerpt or two from Works in Progress (WiPs). Under Poems, you can find poems published on my blog for Writer's Island (formerly Poetry Thursday), and links to the anthologies my work appears in. Non-Fiction has papers written for my PhD program, and other odds and ends on reality. Essays are those things that appeared on my blog, or for the Word By Word Writer's Society (WBWWS) or I wrote in a fit of pique. Finally, the Blog link will take you to my Blogger home, Life On The Periphery, with writing related thoughts and rants, poetry, pictures of Wyoming, and the inevitable homage to Welsh Corgis.

 

Artwork - Long ago, in another life, I was an artist and photographer, and majored in both. Although writing has become the dominate creative force in my life, I still am driven to keep my hand in other artistic pursuits. Since I own Painter, and a primitive version of Photoshop, I play with Digital images. Printmaking has long been an interest of mine, and I alternate between lino block and woodblock printmaking. Thanks to the Baren Forum and Baren Print Exchanges, I may get brave enough to try moku hanga someday. Drawing - at heart I'm more or a draftsman than a painter, happier with a pencil than a brush. In Design, you'll find web pages and logos that I've created, mostly for non-profits, sometimes for friends. In Fiber Arts I like to knit, and dye yarn. Spinning is beyond my coordination level, so I leave that to others. Finally, Fine Arts, for the artwork that doesn't fit anywhere else, like "The Herd is the Word" painted horse sculptures, watercolors and acrylics, and polymer clay constructs.

 

Extras - Friends, Romans, Countrymen, blogs and pages I frequent, writers I admire or harass, and others I think are interesting. My Writer's Groups are organizations, both on line and in the real world that I belong to. Not as many as I should belong to, but as many as a social recluse can deal with. Those Corgis, meaning my pair of Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Maximus and Merlin. If you can't glorify your house pets, then what use is the Internet??  Books, etc, where to find my work, and the work of friends I'd like to promote. Also known as Book Pimp Central. Resources - cool things I've found in my Internet travels, either pertaining to novel and story writing, or general geeky knowledge too good not to share. About ... is about ME, because contrary to what I tell my teenagers, it's ALL about ME. Contact - how to get a hold of me, should you feel the urge to communicate, or take umbrage.

Wander about, explore the overabundance of links, peruse my blog for the latest and greatest blatherings, or just drop me a line to say 'hello'.

 

Welcome to the Periphery.