Weaving has always intrigued me. I tried it as a child, making looms from cardboard boxes. And of course I had one of those potholder making looms you'd use with brightly colored nylon loops. Not exactly great art.
Once I began writing again, somehow something clicked. The earthy, historic, artistic act of weaving was exactly what I was doing when I wrote. Within the context (loom) of a story, I bring dark threads and light together to mix and marry into a tapestry depicting a place in time, and life there. It is not by accident that my character, Jolie', in Rose's Kiss, is a weaver. She really is the story-teller. Out of all of the characters I've ever written (and they all are a part of the writer, in one form or another), Jolie' is the most like me. She is the weaver, as I am.
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