The School Of Difficult Writing

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Feb

The Anatomy Of A Book

I’ve always loved books, but one in my hands today is not treated the same way as it was years ago. When I used to start reading, I would sometimes peruse the dedication page, but most often I would jump right into the story. Not

11 CommentsFebruary 3, 2016by Donna Everhart

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Jan

Out In Public

Recently, fellow writer Carolynn (in some circles we call her 2N’s) Pianta talked in a three part series about special “messages” on her blog. Granted I’ve had similar “messages” throughout my life, but today I’m here to talk about three separate “events” over the course

23 CommentsJanuary 27, 2016by Donna Everhart

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Jan

Reading As Part Of The “Job”

I’m not a slow reader, but when I saw my Goodreads stats for 2015, I stared at it for a second and thought, that’s it? Twelve books? I hastily skimmed over my “To Read” list just to make sure I’d not forgotten to categorize one

33 CommentsJanuary 21, 2016by Donna Everhart

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Jan

Sweet, Blissful Sleep

An update. Remember this post? It got worse before it got better. Obviously we’d been hearing “noises” for a while. After the last rant about this issue, we went right out and bought one of those Hav-A-Hart traps – only, we didn’t use it right

4 CommentsJanuary 15, 2016by Donna Everhart

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Jan

Atmospheric

In the last post I talked about including food in stories I write, and at some point during the writing of that post, I actually stopped to run outside to snap some pictures of a sunset. I’ve got hundreds of pictures of sunsets. I can’t

17 CommentsJanuary 12, 2016by Donna Everhart

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Jan

Char-Grill Heaven

There’s something about writing and including food in a story. Maybe it’s a way to set your reader down in a scene, or to offer a sense of place. No matter, food is a component I use a lot in the stories I write. And

10 CommentsJanuary 6, 2016by Donna Everhart

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Dec

Rear View Mirror

2015 is about done. What better time than now, on this last day of a year filled with ups and downs, to take a look back at all that happened. And what better way than to just grab the photos. Work in progress at the

14 CommentsDecember 31, 2015by Donna Everhart

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Dec

Merry Christmas From The Family

Much like the previous post about White Trash, what’s Christmas without the song which actually is supposed to be the epitome of that? A tune about dysfunctional families, and what many would say is a typical Christmas day spent carving turkey, watching ballgames, mixing up

6 CommentsDecember 22, 2015by Donna Everhart

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Dec

It’s Just Not Christmas Without White Trash

On another blog a writer friend said she wished she could send all of us a big bag of Texas Trash – which made me realize it was time for me to share my own version – White Trash. Don’t I share this every year?

2 CommentsDecember 20, 2015by Donna Everhart

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Dec

For The Love of Cookies

A lot has been happening here at the homestead. I’ll call it post Thanksgiving madness with shopping (online and in stores) wrapping flurries, cleaning up flurries, with occasional writing flurries (current WIP @ 37K), all topped off with holiday parties to attend. This weekend I’ll

6 CommentsDecember 8, 2015by Donna Everhart