by Shannon Anderson | Aug 5, 2022 | Writing
One of my favorite writing activities is research, and I’ve written several posts about it. Here I talk about a bath house and ice cream shop in Charleston, and here the history and the places that inspired my soon-to-be-finished book Faith Can Move Mountains....
by Shannon Anderson | Apr 23, 2022 | Uncategorized, Writing
For the last three weeks, I’ve been working on how to improve my Protagonist’s character arc. After talking to my editor, I went back into my WIP and tried to track her arc. I realized my MC remained fairly static. Ruh roh. So I decided to research...
by Shannon Anderson | Apr 1, 2022 | Uncategorized, Writing
Although I had to cancel my Zoom meeting with my editor yesterday because of a migraine, I’ve rescheduled for Tuesday of next week. In case you haven’t worked with an editor before (this will be my first time), I thought you might like to know what...
by Shannon Anderson | Mar 25, 2022 | My View
Lately, I’ve been listening to podcasts while I do housework or cook. If you listen to them, you know just how many podcasts there are to choose from, but I am drawn to podcasts about how to improve my health, which has been my quest since I stopped teaching...
by Shannon Anderson | Mar 18, 2022 | Language
Have you noticed the preponderance of the word myself in our lexicon lately? If you haven’t, allow me to bring your attention to it so that you, too, can be as annoyed by it as I am. Maybe you won’t be quite as annoyed as I am since I am an English major,...