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Strangers on the internet — Exchanging glances

September 8, 2018 by Vickie Lester

Wondering on the internet What were the chances… Hello, Mercury! Sorry, got distracted there for a minute. Shall we get reacquainted? I used to post here all the damn time about things that struck my fancy, like Hollywood history, cool architecture, and fabulous books. Then I self-published a novel, and poppets, I did go on and on. Then a couple of things happened, I was in the midst of writing another book when the political scene went cockeyed, and I […]

Categories: Advertising, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Publishing, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: #amwriting, Aldous Huxley, Anita Loos, Hollywood novel, narrative, rewrite, voice

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Write what you know…and then grit your teeth and publish. With an older and wiser Vickie Lester and a young Joan Crawford

May 10, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Write what you know??? If that were true all you’d be hearing from me is, “Blah-blah-blah, perimenopause, blah-blah-blah, who didn’t close the refrigerator?, blah-blah-blah, that director is an ASSHOLE, blah-blah-blah, does anyone see my glasses anywhere… Furthermore poppets, I get queasy handing out advice, but the thing about writing, more than anything, is sitting down and doing it. Of course journalists should adhere to who, what, where, when, and why… But, for those of you who are starting to write […]

Categories: Advertising, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Music, Mystery, New York, News, Palm Springs, Photography, Publishing, Relationships, Romance, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: #ampublishing, #amwriting, #ForallthoseHollywoodWiveswhoarealsoHollywoodBeards, #itsinhiskiss, #myfirstnovel, #vickielesterbook1, advice, author, available on Amazon, blogging, blogging buddies rock, buy now, characters, community of authors, compelling, CreateSpace, Donna Tartt, emotional validity, friendship, grit your teeth, Hollywood insider reaveals all, humor, If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, imagination, indentify, Joan Crawford, JoanCrawford, KDP, keep at it, make stuff up, Marcus Zusak, mystery, narrative, novel, novelist, publishing, real, romance, self publishing, The Book Thief, The Goldfinch, when inspiration strikes, write what you know, writing

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ArtSake — Amy Dryansky: No Birds Were Harmed in the Making of this Poem

January 7, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Another captivating voice, I like — strike that — love, the narrative drive of her poetry: Amy Dryansky: No Birds Were Harmed in the Making of this Poem Language is fossil poetry, Emerson said, in reference to I know not what, possibly an aster in stony clay, a theory of light. Something that finds its way out. The interviewer asked if I’d ever abandoned a creative project, and if so, did I come back to it? Yes, I have, yes, […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Children, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, History, Humor, Life, Literature, Memoir, Parenting, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, Short Stories, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: Amy Dryansky, behind the scenes, book of poems, Grass Whistle, humor, Mother, motherhood, narrative, no birds were harmed in the making of this poem, parenting, Poet, poetry, Pokey Mama, procrastination, story telling, the creative process, wit, writing

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Keep at it… Jean Arthur

November 30, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Short Stories, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: advice, author, characters, compelling, Donna Tart, emotional validity, imagination, indentify, Jean Arthur, Joan Crawford, keep at it, make stuff up, Marcus Zusak, Mary Pickford, narrative, novel, novelist, real, The Book Thief, The Goldfinch, when inspiration strikes, write what you know, writing

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When inspiration strikes… write it down. Mary Pickford

November 30, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Short Stories, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: advice, author, characters, compelling, Donna Tart, emotional validity, imagination, indentify, Jean Arthur, Joan Crawford, keep at it, make stuff up, Marcus Zusak, Mary Pickford, narrative, novel, novelist, real, The Book Thief, The Goldfinch, when inspiration strikes, write what you know, writing

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I AM IN THE LAND OF LASSITUDE

May 25, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Babies, I toil not, nor is my raiment anything like a flower’s – but for all my sloth, there has been a burst of creativity on the part of one, George Kaplan, and later today you can read a story of his, THE MAP, a tale of human geography – in its entirety, here on Beguiling Hollywood. In the meantime I’m going to have a cup of tea… and maybe some bonbons. Did I mention it was fabulous? The genre… […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, London, Los Angeles, Photography, Relationships, Short Stories, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: antiquarian book shop, author, Author George Kaplan, beguiling Hollywood, bonbons, cup of tea, fantasy, fiction, genre, human geography, I toil not, literature, map of the human heart, mundane fantasy, narrative, raiment, short story, slipstream, the British Museum, The Map by George Kaplan, trains, Vickie Lester