Don’t Mistake the Artist Write what is real. Write unabashedly. This makes me a difficult person to whom to be a friend or related. I am an artist first. At some point, artists’ experiences deeply shape our work whether we create from the observer's perspective or personal life. Our relationship with friends, lovers, and others… Continue reading Don’t Mistake the Artist
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InspireMe: Where You Find Your Story
The house settled by the Ogle family in the Great Smokey Mountains near Gatlinburg, Tenn. How will you create your place? Where is it located? How often have you traveled there or visited this place in your imagination? Do you miss it when you go? A downtown view of Gatlinburg, Tenn. The truth is that… Continue reading InspireMe: Where You Find Your Story
That was the Place
Go to a place almost forgotten. It could be anywhere. I take a walk in the world surrounding my book, Sons of the Edisto. At the end of a path sits a one-room, meeting house. Mizpah was a church created by Methodists in the nineteenth century. The town around it, Buford's Bridge, was burned by General Sherman's troops… Continue reading That was the Place
The Crossroads of a Writer, Part II: The Client, the Message, and You
By Rebecca T. Dickinson Are you a member of the Libertarian Party? Me: No. Are you a member of the Democratic Party? Me: No. Are you a member of the Republican Party? Me: No. What is your relationship to God? Me: We're good. (Asked in 2008 and 2009): Do you plan to have children anytime… Continue reading The Crossroads of a Writer, Part II: The Client, the Message, and You
Corrie's Season 