Category: Writing
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Tweaking the Premise of My Book
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 characters that don’t change much or not at […]
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Prep for Talking to My Editor
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 I’ve done to prepare for our call. Maybe others […]
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Eat the Frog: Revising My First Manuscript
Last December, I did something scary and expensive but necessary to advance my writing career. I sent my novel to Tim Storm, founder of Storm Writing School and an excellent editor, in Madison, Wisconsin. Why? I had finished my first novel, revised it as well as I could, but had reached the end of my […]
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Pirates Attack!
Today on a Facebook writing group I participate in, the moderator asked us to share some fun or funny lines from our WIPs. My books is rather serious, but there are some fun passages. The lines I chose today are part of a scene that includes two little boys playing pirate with Josiah Hamilton, the […]
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Phosphate Mining at River Oaks
This is the first Wednesday’s Words post I’ve written in a long time. I’ve been busy revising my first novel called FAITH CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS and drafting my second. Most people who’ve read my pages aren’t familiar with Charleston, South Carolina’s phosphate mining past. During the late 1800s after the Civil War, rich deposits of […]
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A Red Hot Sin
It’s early in the morning, and Faith is leaving for Charleston to meet with Josiah Hamilton about mining phosphate rock at River Oaks. She feels guilty about having written a letter pretending to be her father, but not guilty enough not to go through with her plan. #WIP #1linewed #amwriting #amediting “The sound of trickling […]
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Wednesday’s Words from Faith Can Move Mountains In this excerpt Faith is waiting for the sun to rise before she goes to Charleston to see Josiah Hamilton about mining phosphate at River Oaks. “The sky and the river shone quicksilver in the twilight, the clouds pink and lavender above their gunmetal undersides. The weak light […]
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Real life vs. Social Media
For awhile now, I’ve been contemplating giving up Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, or at least curtailing the time I spend on it. I started participating in these platforms because I wanted to stay in touch with friends, and I’ve done that. I’ve reconnected with childhood friends, my friends from college and my time […]
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Coffee Mess
#1LineWednesday #FaithCanMoveMountains Marshall Lindsay is the antagonist in my novel, Faith Can Move Mountains. He enters the book on the first page, in the first line. He disrupts Faith’s world and resurfaces as an unwelcome and dangerous presence in Faith’s and Josiah’s lives. Here’s a taste of Marshall. “Mr. Lindsay set his coffee on her […]
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Trouble’s Coming
#1LineWednesday #FaithCanMoveMountains February 1869, River Oaks Plantation One cold February morning, Marshall Lindsay has come to gloat that Thomas must pay his mortgage, or he will take the property from the Gentry family. When Marshall leaves River Oaks, Belinda knows he’s trouble, just as he was when Faith’s mother was alive. “He up to no […]
Shannon H. Anderson 