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Nonessential words: Tips for Cutting Word Count
Please comment and share via social media! As a writer of short stories, I find my short stories aren’t short enough. Too many times I get excited about finding the perfect journal to publish in only to read their submission guidelines and discover my short story exceeds the magazine’s word count guidelines. Decision time. 1.…
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A Homage to Cat Lovers, featuring Buddy: My favorite Feline-Based Short Stories
I am writing this post is to honor charities, rescuers, fosters, adoptees, and all lovers of cats, but in particular to honor my sister, Aleea, who after searching for NINE MONTHS for Buddy, finally brought him home yesterday. When I started writing this post I wanted to honor writers who figured cats into their stories,…
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Writing About Childhood Trauma, by author and guest blogger, Susan Zurenda
My Character Eli Winfield and Childhood Trauma by Author of Bells for Eli, Susan Zurenda Trauma is a complex word. We associate the term most often with military personnel who are exposed to war trauma and who experience posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Individuals with PTSD suffer such symptoms as flashbacks, nightmares, emotional withdrawal, anger, and…
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Feeling Naughty? Tune into Bad to the Bone, a Poetry-themed Radio Show on melodically challenged
Replay of Bad to the Bone melodically challenged Poetry Show If you missed my Bad to the Bone themed poetry show on melodically challenged with K.B. Kincer last time around, you are in luck because WRAS-Album 88, Georgia State University College’s Radio Station-Atlanta is replaying it this week. Tune in Thursday, July 23rd OR Sunday, July 26th at…
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Author Event: Ruth Reiniche presents Sign Language: Reading Flannery O’Connor’s Graphic Narrative July 16th, 7PM EDT
Ruth Reiniche presents Sign Language: Reading Flannery O’Connor’s Graphic Narrative If you have enjoyed my academic series with author Ruth Reiniche, please consider attending her discussion hosted by the Georgia Center for the Book Event on July 16th at 7PM EDT where you can discover more about Reiniche and her book Sign Language: Reading Flannery…
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Academic Series Part III: Re: Leora Watts and the Ill-Fitting Pink Nightgown by Author & Guest Blogger Ruth Reiniche
Photo of Georgia College Admission’s Building, Alma Mater of Flannery O’Connor Re: Leora Watts and the Ill-Fitting Pink Nightgown Mrs. Watts was sitting alone in a white iron bed, cutting her toenails with a large pair of scissors. She was a big woman with very yellow hair and white skin that glistened with a greasy…
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Academic Series Part II: An Interview with Ruth Reiniche, Author of Sign Language: Reading Flannery O’Connor’s Graphic Narrative
An Interview with Ruth Reiniche, Author of Sign Language: Reading Flannery O’Connor’s Graphic Narrative Why Flannery O’Connor? What attracted you to this project? Are you also an illustrator, a photographer, or an artist of any kind? While I was working as a secondary English teacher, I pursued many areas of study that led me to…
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Academic Series Part I: Sign Language: Reading Flannery O’Connor’s Graphic Narrative by Author, Ruth Reiniche
REVIEW: SIGN LANGUAGE: READING FLANNERY O’CONNOR’S GRAPHIC NARRATIVE BY AUTHOR, RUTH REINICHE There has been endless critical analysis about Flannery O’Connor, so much that I wondered if there was anything new to say. Well, it turns out there is. Ruth Reiniche’s Sign Language: Reading Flannery O’Connor’s Graphic Narrative, provides a fresh and innovative look at…
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Are you a Class Empty or a Class Full Person?
Scribe Stories From the Wren’s Nest: What do you think when you see an empty classroom? The first day of school, summer break, COVID-19? Before 2020, we didn’t know this term, COVID-19. We would never have guessed our kids would one week go from classrooms to virtual learning, or that some kids in America would…
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Memoir Series Part III: Where Do The Stones Come From by Author, Ann Hite
Where Do The Stones Come From? Guest Blog by Author, Ann Hite On my desk sits a pottery bowl of stones. One comes from the property where my grandfather was strung between two trees and beaten to near death. Another is flat and smooth and came from the Nantahala River during a record drought that…
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