Courtesy of http://www.thecommunityarchitect.com/2009/07/29/online-communities-are-key-to-landing-a-decent-job-in-a-down-economy/ Write. Write about … Write about one subject. It seems impossible in a time when everything intermingles. In a class which scares me more than Calculus called literary criticism I've remembered something. Some of the ancient Greek and Roman writers club believed "poets" should focus on one subject. A painting of a… Continue reading The One that Keeps Showing Up
Category: Life
Let’s Catch Up: How You’re Doing and How I’m Doing
I found this online and wanted to share it with you. Courtesy of http://collegeessayeditor.com/home/2011/08/10/the-writers-sense-of-humor/ Have you ever been in a situation where your mind goes blank and you forget to use your or you're? It is like the use of their, they're or there. Last week, I was writing a short essay for my English… Continue reading Let’s Catch Up: How You’re Doing and How I’m Doing
Legends of the Edisto: How to Say Goodbye … For Now
Courtesy of http://edistofriends.org I stand by the black river. It is the longest black river in the United States. Nothing special about it when you first look. Comparing the river to another is like comparing the Tarboro River to the streams in the mountains of North Carolina. It is murky, slow and ancient. Unless sun… Continue reading Legends of the Edisto: How to Say Goodbye … For Now
Pardon the Interruption
I went missing last week. On my new blog Meals on Three Burners and A Word or More, there were no posts. That happens some Sundays. Sometimes I do not make the deadline I set for myself. It happens. The deadline is for stories, a book and poetry collection. Standards are high. I completed several rounds of editing… Continue reading Pardon the Interruption
Pens In, Guns Out
In fifth grade, my teacher selected my short story about a town in the middle of nowhere, Bamberg, South Carolina. I won an award for writing: the Lieutenant Governor's Writing Award. I chose the image of Mizpah Church in Bamberg County, and that story inspired my manuscript Sons of the Edisto. Two stories inspired by the book… Continue reading Pens In, Guns Out
Get Queried!
Two months ago I emailed a letter to a group called YA Stands. On the first week of the month, YA Stands accepts letters for writers seeking help to improve query letters for their Young Adult manuscripts. It selects one writer and his or her query letter. After writing several different drafts of the query letter for… Continue reading Get Queried!
I So Had to Tell You First
Got your attention. Good. That's what I wanted. Not to take up too much of your time. Since I am an ADD author and you're beginning to wonder: What's the point to today's post, I'll make it short … as possible. Here's the deal: I am working mom, who set many goals at the beginning of… Continue reading I So Had to Tell You First
The Mommy Scribbles: The Thing about Time
Almost two years ago I yelled at my Mom for taking my son, Charles, to get his haircut. No one told me. I was working, and everyone thought he needed a haircut. Tonight, I told Mom something different. "Take Charles to get a haircut," I said. "Please don't chop it all off." When my husband… Continue reading The Mommy Scribbles: The Thing about Time
No Matter Where
I grew up in a suburb outside Charlotte curious about everyone and everything from a place located anywhere but there. I wanted to know what people ate, what they believed and why they believed it. One constant in all of my travel, friendship and life experiences is the appreciation of landscape, cityscape and what people cultivate. When I write, my favorite… Continue reading No Matter Where
Thurspiration: Bullet for a Book
Raise your hand if you've taken a bullet for your books. Raise your hand if you've taken a bullet for your education. Raise your hand if someone has threatened you because you deserve that right. Courtesy of http://www.vitalvoices.org/node/3341. In case you did not catch Time's 100 Most Influential People edition, one teenage girl was on the… Continue reading Thurspiration: Bullet for a Book
Corrie's Season 