I’ve recently attended several programs that include the writing issue of plotting and structure. Yea! I like that, because I am basically a plot kinda person. Almost more than the character, although the characters have always mattered, because, after all who is it that gets you into the story? The quintessential book of my childhood…
Author: teresafannin
Online Classes
I am not a fan of online classes, although I probably should think of it more as what we used to call ‘independent study’. I always liked independent study when I could speed through the parts that I felt comfortable with and linger over the parts that were more complex. I just finished a fourteen…
Access
I read a lot. And most of my friends/acquaintances do as well. But for me it is not just books. My mother, a lifelong reader and wordsmith, loved the newspaper. And it wasn’t just the news she read, although she did keep herself updated. She read magazines, recipes, books, labels, graphs, advertisements–anything and everything that used words….
Ugh! Time Flies.
It’s been three months since my last post. LOL, sounds sort of like the start of confession. Ah, but truly, my last post was March for St. Paddy’s day. Now it’s hot, well, what would you expect in June, in the South, in North Carolina? And while I do think that time flies, sometimes I think…
Being Irish
There are so many celebrations in March, the Ides, the swallows returning to Capistrano, the Vernal Equinox and the warming of the north, but nothing beats the shear madness of St. Patrick’s day. Dad would say, “on St. Patrick’s day there are only two kinds of people in the world, those who are Irish and those…