![]() ![]() I’ve opened a new folder, and a few ideas have occurred to me already. Now, I’m finally ready to begin coaxing my trickling ol’ river back to health, so that I can begin the next novel with an enthusiastic gush of ideas. I emailed it to my editor, hopped a plane for Houston where I signed books at the International Quilt Festival and at two lovely bookstores, then came home and immediately staged two parties. I finished my latest novel, Happiness Key, at the end of October. So dried up rivers have their place in the scheme of things. If I’ve written 600 pages working toward my conclusion, and suddenly the river detours and takes me along with it, that new tributary may well lead to rocks and whitewater, certainly not toward bringing my book in on deadline. At the end creativity dries up and old-fashioned perseverance and instinct finish the novel for me. Creativity begins to trickle by the middle. Creativity flows fast and free at the beginning of a novel. I’ve never been able to predict what my own creative river will do. Sometimes it slows to such a sad trickle we have to trudge upstream to see what’s damming progress. Sometimes it rushes so fast, all we can do is leap out of the way before we drown. Maybe, too, the phrase remained alive because when I moved from music to writing, rivers running dry took on a whole new meaning for me.Ĭreativity in any form is like a river. ![]() Maybe my close association to the Shenandoah River and Valley through the Shenandoah Album novels brought this memory back. And that is the Shenandoah River behind me in the photo. I’m not sure why this snippet stuck with me through the years. ![]() The answer, by the way, was: “I’m gonna stand on the banks and watch the crawfish die, oh babe,” an image I didn’t fully understand until I moved to Louisiana years later. Tidal river: A tidal river is a river whose flow and level are influenced by tides.Years ago, in another life, I played the piano for a fellow music student who performed a catchy art song that began with the question in my title. Virgin river: If in a arid zones like deserts, a river water may completely dry before it joins another river or ocean, then it is called as Virgin river. It is that type of river in which there is neither scouring and nor silting.Īdditional Information Flashy river: If the flood rise and flood fall in a river is sudden, then it is called as Flashy river.There is a decrease in the bed elevation in the direction of the flow of the river due to the scouring of the sediments from the bed.It is also known as a scouring type river.Aggrading rivers also known as Accreting Rivers.As the silting process goes on, the bed slope of aggrading rivers get increased, which is shown below.These rivers collect sediments and build up its bed by silting.The braided pattern in the river develops after local deposition of coarser material, which cannot be transported under prevailing conditions of flow and which subsequently grows into island consisting of coarse as well as fine material. ![]() Braided river: When a river flows in two or more channels around alluvial island, it is known as Braided river. ![]()
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