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First things first, the cabaret went great last night. It felt fantastic being back onstage in front of an audience.
Now, on to things of a more serious nature. When I was in high school, I took a course called "Writers' Craft". Basically, our teacher told us that we were supposed to write what we knew. All I wanted to write was fantasy. I felt this was what I knew. It felt like the most natural thing to me. I had been raised on stories and superstitions passed down to me by my bubbie. I was told not to line up your feet so that they faced a doorway, or the dybbuks could drag you off into the night. I was scolded if I whistled in the house because this was bad luck. I was told stories of small European towns filled with foolish wisemen, and truly wise beggars. It speaks to her power as a storyteller that I retained every word of her tales. To me, talking animals, enchanted objects, magical crones, and dybbuks were my idea of fantasy. So, imagine my teenage surprise when I went to the fantasy section of the local bookstore and found novels full of wizards, fairies, and elves. Don't get me wrong. I loved these books passionately. I still do. Yet, I hungered for a book with a mythology I identified with. I wanted characters who had a history like mine. I decided that I would take matters into my own hands. If I couldn't find it, I would write it myself. So it is that The Strings of the Violin came to be. I like to think of it as my own little love letter to the stories of my bubbie's homeland in what was once Czechoslovakia and Poland. Now that I have children of my own, I have every intention of passing the same stories down to them. Write what you know indeed.
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For all interested, I am performing tonight at a cabaret at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts at 7:30. I have decided to break the mold set by most at these things and NOT do musical theatre songs. I will probably be performing some Ben Folds selections. Yay gender bending performing! All interested can get tickets at the door for a donation to Steppin' Out Theatrical Productions. Should be a fun night!
I'll post more when it's over. This will be my first performance since Brian and I had our triplets Joseph, Phillip and Hailey were born eight months ago. Much nerves about this. I'll be signing off now. Joseph has decided the dog is his own personal jungle gym. Hi everybody! Welcome to my ramblings. This is my first post as a blogger, and I just want to tell everyone how excited I am. As you can see, I am a soon to be published author. My debut novel The Strings of the Violin will be available for everyone soon. I will update with more information when more becomes known. Until then, stay tuned. You can follow me on Twitter as well @AliLGoldenberg, and find my Facebook fanpage under my full name as well. As for this blog, look for exciting topics on such things as fantasy, triplets, and musical theatre.
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