by Shannon Anderson | Jul 5, 2013 | My View
When I read my Women’s Health Magazine the other day, I came across the term “bliss point” used by food companies. Bliss point describes the “precise amount of ingredients—often sweeteners—that maximizes the appeal of a food product so that people will crave it, buy...
by Shannon Anderson | Jun 28, 2013 | Writing
Revision is Hard! Everyone who writes must revise. It is a universal problem we writers have that we can’t see the errors in our writing or we are so involved in our writing we can’t see when we aren’t saying what we think we are saying. That is why I signed up for a...
by Shannon Anderson | Jun 25, 2013 | My View
I was checking my email today after being away from home for a week without my computer and ran across a suggestion from Twitter to follow Geoff Talbot. When I looked him up, I found his wonderful blog called Seven Sentences: Daily Inspiration for Creative People. His...
by Shannon Anderson | Jun 16, 2013 | My View
Often I find living so far from my family difficult. Southerners are not a roaming people, at least they don’t travel up north very often. So I have been the one to make trips back and forth to see my family. One very important trip, however, was one I didn’t make in...
by Shannon Anderson | May 8, 2013 | Writing
On May second I realized a dream. I finished the revision of my novel The Portrait. I didn’t really take the time until this past weekend to recognize what I had done. The dream I’ve nurtured and fed has finally came true. It was a five year journey, longer if I...