I have many dreams, including to be able to write and freelance edit and support myself from the money I make. I'd live out in the country, surrounded by trees, at the end of a lane. My house wouldn't be anything excessive; it would be a log cabin with a open floor plan, sun room … Continue reading Author in the Woods
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A Note on Persistence and Optimism
This past February, I lost a self-published adult fiction contest. There were only sixty-six entries, and Devil's Blood didn't even make it into the top twenty. Want to know how I felt? Awful. Dreadful. Worthless. A failure. Hopeless. Like a old sack of potatoes not good enough for anything but the garbage dump. It took … Continue reading A Note on Persistence and Optimism
Sensory Details
We've been talking details in class, more specifically, sensory details. Our exercise was to take a scene and write it in one sense other than the visual. I choose 'touch.' Oh my goodness - this was a mind-opening exercise. I didn't realize how much I relied of the visual sense, or how much I ignored … Continue reading Sensory Details
Beatrice B. Morgan 