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 | 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...
by Shannon Anderson | Oct 29, 2012 | Writing
For about four years I have been hard at work on a novel, a project that has consumed my thought process for much longer than that. I have attended workshops about fiction writing and taken classes to learn the process of writing, an art form I believe encompasses all...
by Shannon Anderson | Aug 29, 2012 | Writing
How many of us would choose some of the changes we have undergone in our lives? I know if I could choose my path I would not be unemployed right now, and neither would my husband. The past four years have been a long, sometimes hard four years, not knowing how we...
by Shannon Anderson | Aug 24, 2012 | Writing
I’ve been sidetracked this summer, really for most of last year. I was teaching at a school where I wasn’t happy and was overworked, so much so that I developed a cyst on my vocal chords from talking for seven hours straight, five days a week. I resigned from that...
