Delores Cremm's Blog
August 23, 2016
Truth in Dialect
The Dead Alligator on Gunther Road
My greatest thanks to Toni Morrison for her powerful Nobel Lecture in December of 1993 on language. As her old blind woman scenario of the bird in hand states, "I don't know if the bird is dead or alive but I do know the bird is in your hands". I wrote The Dead Alligator on Gunther Road without hindrance in my character's voice and the history of language true to my own tongue. The dialect and narrative of this story was placed in my hands to deliver either dead or alive.
Delores Cremm
My greatest thanks to Toni Morrison for her powerful Nobel Lecture in December of 1993 on language. As her old blind woman scenario of the bird in hand states, "I don't know if the bird is dead or alive but I do know the bird is in your hands". I wrote The Dead Alligator on Gunther Road without hindrance in my character's voice and the history of language true to my own tongue. The dialect and narrative of this story was placed in my hands to deliver either dead or alive.
Delores Cremm
May 1, 2016
Caregiving-Is it a Blessing or a Burden?
To ask this question is a matter of perpective. I can only say a few things about it. It's a blessing to giveback the care you recieved as a child to your aging parent. I am a full-time caregiver for my 80 year old mother who suffers with dementia. From sun-up to sun-down, I work and worry about her needs. At times, I wonder if I am doing it right, but I'm not being graded on my tasks. There are many topics on the subject, and believe me when I say every case is different. I cannot relate to things I've read and nothing prepares you for it. Jump in and hold on to your own wits. It's 7am in the morning and my house is quiet and I am sitting here blogging with a cup of coffee. This is a blessing!! I have 3 older sibling, but none are capable of caregiving, so therefore I am an only child. That is a burden!! My life has changed drastically from being able to travel and work outside the home. That is a burden!! When I bath and tuck my mom in at night, and she looks at me, smiles with recognition and love. That is a blessing...
April 16, 2016
Why I include intersex characters in my novels.
Many successful authors' have taken on the challenge of writing about intersex people. Authors like Alyssa Brugman, Alex as Well, Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy and Jeffrey Eugenidies, Middlesex. These authors paved the way for me because 85 percent of my work features intersex characters.
I represent my characters as people with real lives and conflicts weaving around my story plots. I write ordinary fiction characters that are gender-fluid and present them as, siblings, parents, friends, neighbors and lovers. Some commit heroic acts and others emotionally tormented. Some are comfortable in their skin, while others are uncertain. Some hold secrets and others tell all. My stories are not about being intersex. My genre is drama and suspense. I include intersex characters, because I had the pleasure of a personal involvement. A great deal of my partner's problems were due to acceptance but there were standard conflicts in our lives as well. To put it simple, we did not wake up daily focusing on her being intersex.
It feels natural to include this aggregation in my work just as including any group of people. The general population may be unknowledgeable of intersex, but a book opens our eyes to the unrecognized. 1 in 2000 babies born are intersex and the static states that there is an entire society hidden from the world.
Delores Cremm, Author of Province (The Vanderhault Saga)
I represent my characters as people with real lives and conflicts weaving around my story plots. I write ordinary fiction characters that are gender-fluid and present them as, siblings, parents, friends, neighbors and lovers. Some commit heroic acts and others emotionally tormented. Some are comfortable in their skin, while others are uncertain. Some hold secrets and others tell all. My stories are not about being intersex. My genre is drama and suspense. I include intersex characters, because I had the pleasure of a personal involvement. A great deal of my partner's problems were due to acceptance but there were standard conflicts in our lives as well. To put it simple, we did not wake up daily focusing on her being intersex.
It feels natural to include this aggregation in my work just as including any group of people. The general population may be unknowledgeable of intersex, but a book opens our eyes to the unrecognized. 1 in 2000 babies born are intersex and the static states that there is an entire society hidden from the world.
Delores Cremm, Author of Province (The Vanderhault Saga)
April 10, 2016
Intersex descriptive blurb
From: Province
She turned on the shower, brushed her teeth, stripped nude, and examined her image in the mirror mounted on the bathroom door. Gazed at her well-formed body, ripples of muscles throughout her abdomen, defined broad shoulders and a small waistline but not the figure of a woman. Toni looked at her almost non-existing breast then down to her genital area. She had a vagina but there was something unusual about it. Her clitoris was every bit of three inches long, un-erected. She had a vagina opening and it secreted when sexually aroused, but at the age of eighteen, she had still not experienced a menstrual cycle. With an exasperated sigh, Toni spoke the words aloud, What in the hell am I, then shuddered at the thought of her deformity. Her body's unnatural development caused her to feel dismal and ashamed.
She turned on the shower, brushed her teeth, stripped nude, and examined her image in the mirror mounted on the bathroom door. Gazed at her well-formed body, ripples of muscles throughout her abdomen, defined broad shoulders and a small waistline but not the figure of a woman. Toni looked at her almost non-existing breast then down to her genital area. She had a vagina but there was something unusual about it. Her clitoris was every bit of three inches long, un-erected. She had a vagina opening and it secreted when sexually aroused, but at the age of eighteen, she had still not experienced a menstrual cycle. With an exasperated sigh, Toni spoke the words aloud, What in the hell am I, then shuddered at the thought of her deformity. Her body's unnatural development caused her to feel dismal and ashamed.
April 5, 2016
Giving thanks for acceptance
I write drama and suspense, my characters are people living life in the conflicts of my story plots. My characters are interracial, lesbian, and intersex. I do not focus on gender, sexual orientation or nationality.
I chose the LGBTQI category seeking open minded and acceptance, but I find my ratings comes from the general category and I want to extend my appreciation.
I chose the LGBTQI category seeking open minded and acceptance, but I find my ratings comes from the general category and I want to extend my appreciation.
March 24, 2016
Intersex and LGBT Quote
I dedicate my published and unplublished work to Intersex/epicene and LGBT individuals, because I feel God does not make mistakes in the creation of people.
Author's Review
Pantomime
I thoroughly enjoyed Laura Lam's Pantomime; her impression of an intersex character is superb and imaginative which proves her an accomplished writer of the upmost quality. She not only remarks upon the physical characteristics of epicenes but elaborates on the emotional aspect as well. Her perpective on Demi-God/Kedi as being a complete person was an interesting reasoning. This Author weaves a great story of fantasy and adventures in the life of Micah Grey/Iphigenia Laurus and written in her own unique style. No sexy Vampire/Werewolves or 50 shades of anything for Ms. Lam. Bravo!!!
Delores Cremm, Author of Province.
I thoroughly enjoyed Laura Lam's Pantomime; her impression of an intersex character is superb and imaginative which proves her an accomplished writer of the upmost quality. She not only remarks upon the physical characteristics of epicenes but elaborates on the emotional aspect as well. Her perpective on Demi-God/Kedi as being a complete person was an interesting reasoning. This Author weaves a great story of fantasy and adventures in the life of Micah Grey/Iphigenia Laurus and written in her own unique style. No sexy Vampire/Werewolves or 50 shades of anything for Ms. Lam. Bravo!!!
Delores Cremm, Author of Province.
February 27, 2016
I normalize my intersex characters
Province
In province, my character Toni feels shame and dismal over her condition because I experienced these emotions first hand from my own personal perception of being involved with an epicene person. My character Bonette who is my heroine is accepting of herself and proudly announces what she is and explains its hereditary pattern in the Vanderhault's genetics. I wrote her this way because in my story-world she is a tribute to wanting satisfaction of one's self. Even though my novels are fiction, in order to weave a good story, I feel you must pull from personal experiences. With that being said, I loved a person for over 6 years of my life and lived through her emotional state. I watched an individual, battle and loose the fight of her anatomy, so therefore I write acceptance.
In province, my character Toni feels shame and dismal over her condition because I experienced these emotions first hand from my own personal perception of being involved with an epicene person. My character Bonette who is my heroine is accepting of herself and proudly announces what she is and explains its hereditary pattern in the Vanderhault's genetics. I wrote her this way because in my story-world she is a tribute to wanting satisfaction of one's self. Even though my novels are fiction, in order to weave a good story, I feel you must pull from personal experiences. With that being said, I loved a person for over 6 years of my life and lived through her emotional state. I watched an individual, battle and loose the fight of her anatomy, so therefore I write acceptance.
February 26, 2016
Farewell and remembering Ms Harper Lee
Hello friends,
I stopped by to pay tribute to one of the greats.
Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.”
Harper Lee, to kill a mocking bird.
Just 34 words that inspired me to write. Ms. Lee delivered these powerful lines and put me on the literary path. Someday I hope a line from my own writing will, impact an individual suchas this.
Farewell Ms Lee, you may be absent from the body, but your words will live on.....
I stopped by to pay tribute to one of the greats.
Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.”
Harper Lee, to kill a mocking bird.
Just 34 words that inspired me to write. Ms. Lee delivered these powerful lines and put me on the literary path. Someday I hope a line from my own writing will, impact an individual suchas this.
Farewell Ms Lee, you may be absent from the body, but your words will live on.....
February 7, 2016
Writing with Elegance
Is it me or has elegance disapeared from the craft. I can quote authors I have read and felt the emotions of their lines. Harper lee, Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown, Sarah Waters and Dorothy Allison are amongst the greats. With these authors mentioned you don't need a dictionary to read their novels all that's required is a good imagination. When I became a serious writer myself, I thought I needed to improve upon my vocabulary to weave a good story, but I soon found the words I was using were to mechanic. They weren't stimulating and emotionally felt. I began listening to what my characters instead of using my own structured vocabulary and believe me great lines out.
As example, from my short story Followed:
"Everybody round here use they cell phones, but ya ain't gonna get nobody ta let ya borrow em not unless you perform ah favor shit these boyz ain't had no chocolate puss, since Kathy. Got a cigarette," she asked.
These lines have broken english and slang contents, but it's what my character said. I listened and had to learn how to make microsoft word behave :). My character Bella had poor english and was from a backward society. I wrote her true heritage.
Lines from Alice Walker's The color purple
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”. ... “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
Opening Lines from Harper Lee's To kill a mocking bird.
. “Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with.”
Pure elegance.
As example, from my short story Followed:
"Everybody round here use they cell phones, but ya ain't gonna get nobody ta let ya borrow em not unless you perform ah favor shit these boyz ain't had no chocolate puss, since Kathy. Got a cigarette," she asked.
These lines have broken english and slang contents, but it's what my character said. I listened and had to learn how to make microsoft word behave :). My character Bella had poor english and was from a backward society. I wrote her true heritage.
Lines from Alice Walker's The color purple
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”. ... “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
Opening Lines from Harper Lee's To kill a mocking bird.
. “Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with.”
Pure elegance.
