teresafannin, Author at Teresa Fannin

11/26/201310/27/2016

Squished

Holidays. There are lots of them. There are the fun holidays, like New Year’s, Martin Luther King, Valentine’s Day [a boon to the floral, stationary and candy making industries], St. Patrick’s Day [arguably for the Irish, but as my Da used to say, “there’s only two kinds of people in the world on March 17th, those…

11/22/201310/27/2016

What I learned today

I need a critique group. I need the imposed discipline. I need the conversation. I need the support. But mostly, I need the brutal truth about my writing. I don’t want, “oh that’s really good.” Or, “I like this.” What I want is––”no, you used that same word five times on the same page,” or,…

11/20/201310/27/2016

Whovians

Wow. Fifty years, seems like too long a period of time and still wow! I love stories about how we came to have post-it notes from 3M. Or how cranberry juice overcame the faux cancer scare of the 1950s to become a product that is on the shelves 365 days per year. The business person…

11/15/201311/15/2013

Friday

It’s the end of the week. I like endings. I like beginnings and, truth be told, I like middles too. Much like chocolate, lol, dark, milk, you name it, I like it. Today I feel the need to clear my desk and my head and focus. I’m into a nonfiction subject that doesn’t translate well…

11/09/201310/27/2016

History

History, the word, has a sort of panoramic ring to it, covering whole epochs, defining eras, labeling ages. At least the history I grew up with was papered over with dates and places, impacts on countries and peoples, all very Charlie Brown’s I love mankind, it’s people I hate attitude. A phrase I repeat often is Memory is…