<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ramona M.  Lyons- Writer.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ramona M.  Lyons]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:54:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ramonalyons.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Stir! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flattered they revised this announcement on Insta... I'll take it! About a week ago, I participated in Stir, a reading series at Cafe Suspiro in San Francisco, hosted by The Fabulist and the amazing T.K.Rex!  This was a bittersweet engagement, since I filled in for a reader who had a last minute emergency, but I was honored to be asked and excited to read from The Body a Book of Conjuring. I joined Swetha Amit, Lisa Goldstein and Edna Mira Raia on a panel reading their work in honor of "foggy...]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/_stir</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a55b3da68b728cc93fe5869</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:38:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_91f85edb145a492fa8ff797a30eb5bfb~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_836,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hedgebrook, the life changing impact of The Art and Craft of Revision]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was unprepared for the complete charm of my cabin with a woodburning stove. I've spent some time processing my visit to Hedgebrook for Deborah Harkness's The Art and Craft of Revision workshop. I have to say it was lifechanging, and enabled me to take myself seriously as a writer and novelist. The workshop itself was fantastic, as was my cohort, but I also want to note how fundamental Hedgebrook was to this experience. It was the stealth character in the narrative, alway there in the...]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/hedgebrook-the-life-changing-impact-of-the-art-and-craft-of-revision</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a55a1bce3330becfcc121b1</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_00413ec2b05f4ec89e2e325226a6e773~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of Rainforest Writer's Retreat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Run by the inimitable Patrick Swenson, Rainforest Writers Retreat was an extraordiary experience of concentrated writing punctuated by sweet writer meetups and long beautiful walks in the spectacular Olympic Rainforest. I started a collection of mushroom stump photos! Got up early to watch the sun rise over the lake. Had a couple of major novel epiphanies that crystallized my perspective and how I'd communicate it. Slept like a champ. I can't wait to go back.]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/the-magic-of-rainforest-writer-s-retreat</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5677cdf5ac96cf0fd508cd</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_1b47ae4ca1104ae3ad94fd533a18b305~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notes on my "day job"...What does an applied semiotician do?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, I translate culture for brands to help guide strategy and communications, highlighting how culture is changing, what's emerging on the horizon and how to communicate in a culturally salient way, using language and imagery, metaphor and even gesture. More about me is available on Semiovox. Check it out here. For more about my professional life and the work I do, visit my site Lucid Semiotics.  #semiotics #crazymaking #culturalanalysis]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/15-tips-to-combat-writer-s-block</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e3349064189950017b30d04</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_318f8ed8ea8c4ae488f1b67cfe2661f5~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goth Purple]]></title><description><![CDATA[As always, excited to be part of another fun and thought-provoking Semiovox series, this time entitled COLOR CODEX, about the personal meaning of specific colors. My color-- GOTH PURPLE, of course. Available here and below.... I first encountered goth purple on Prince’s Purple Rain album (1984). I begged my aunt to buy it for me since my parents didn’t understand how much I neededit. While I wouldn’t classify the funk and pop-inspired Prince as goth, the purple aesthetic of that album (and...]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/goth-purple</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a559f11870c7bdb8f41cde8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_1c508510a2814ba3acbb8a21068d6be5~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_360,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Ode to the Fro!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was wondering if my old tumblr blog The Lucid Plane still existed, and it sure does! This next post is one of my favorites from way back.... Have I told you how much I love the ‘fro? That’s right- the fro. Amazing how much space the fro can cover– that is, there’s the bigger-is-better-and-badder fro, the I- don’t-take-myself-too-seriously fro, the throwback intellectual fro, the sex god/goddess fro, the serious afro, the I’m-coming-out fro, the big- chop-watch out now-fro, the hipster fro…...]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/an-ode-to-the-fro</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a559899e3330becfcc10a65</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_7db6a6f349274b02b65c63f63fcf49fe~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_500,h_294,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voices of Our Nation, I'll never forget you]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another remembrance of 2020-- I was accepted to VONA! But the pandemic kept us home and online, which was bittersweet. We did it! Just not the usual way. I had an amazing and stunningly creative speculative fiction cohort (with Tananarive Due heading up the Speculative Fiction side of the house). Though it was a short journey, it was well worth taking, especially with you all.]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/voices-of-our-nation-i-ll-never-forget-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a559d3d419af4c003fd47a1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_38a623de34ea458daf4ab1141db95c16~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[FogCon 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[My first "con" ever was FOGCON 2020, and I did two things: 1) moderated the best panel ever... Shades of Fear: Color in Horror and 2) read an excerpt from my WIP The Body a Book of Conjuring. (Via Twitter before it died, at least for me....) Best spent Saturday in a long time…moderating Shades of Fear: Color in Horror with @tomesandcoffee; @UnrealCitoyenne&#38; @ls_johnson at FOGCON 2020!! The topic description: Horror is often thought of as the genre of darkness, but it also needs bright colors...]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/fogcon-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a559b2c68b728cc93fe1c4f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_7ced4bcacf554e439d4cc6470388a126~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would our room lead to a tunnel under the hotel?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some notes on dialogue]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/jack-and-karen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e33ce2872ce6c0017b28e5b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 05:55:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_2427e79125ab4514918b5512e574d45d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_910,h_733,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monster Fangirl]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ok, it's true, I can be a monster fangirl.]]></description><link>https://www.ramonalyons.com/post/monster-fangirl</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e33b504e7b25400180049be</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:04:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/683845_bd0370efc0864444a9c39a850f555eb3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_681,h_908,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ramona M. Lyons</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>