Once Upon A Time...or something like it

Neither trite, nor cheesy. It's a classic line. The ultimate intro. The line that pulls you into a timeless place of far ago, readying you for a tale of woe that magically becomes "happily ever after." Stacy Barton has those words and the image of an old typewriter as a part of her homepage. It's the first thing that you see besides her name. Sprawling letters and old timey cars hanging off to the side. There's so much personality in the simplicity of it. The thoughts behind it, meant to draw the eye and hold your attention. The site of course is mostly there just to give information on the author herself and her previous works, but there is a link to her blog, which is where her personal voice truly shines through. A place for networking and putting herself out there. Touching base with writers like herself and just a place to give her work to the world. She posts a few of her poems within the blog or just everyday things that she wants to talk about. The idea of showcasing the website and linking the blog is a good one, because...most author websites are kinda commercial and just gives you the requisite bio...their body of works and odds and ends within that same vein. Linking the blog, takes things a step further by letting you in closer with the writer...reading what they're thinking while their writing. Talking about the struggles of getting the words on paper and the paper into the right pair of hands. "Cultivating the art of the story," Barton writes also on that homepage. Words painting a portrait, telling the whole story or just the barest view to tell the story of a moment. Writing as art. It really is.