#WordWeavers 6/28. Antagonist POV: Would you rather have legs that grow a mm every time you lie OR a head that grows every time you sneeze?

Samuel Beck would look at you as if you had two heads if you gave him such a choice. If you kept pressing for an answer, he'd probably shoot you.

#WritersCoffeeClub 28 Would you join a writing residency? Talk about your reasons.

I see the appeal. But I could always write very comfortably in my own house, even when my kids were young. I just wrote after they went to bed. Maybe once my husband retires, I can do select ones where I'd be there six months and carry him along and we can explore the area and I can get writing/teaching done.

#PennedPossibilities 713 Tell us if your MC has a healthy lifestyle, diet, etc.

Carlton Dixon would call himself pretty healthy--he's not overweight and he's able to do everything physically that needs to be done as captain of a boat. Goes to the doctor once a year for a check-up. Drinks moderately, usually just socially. Friendly without a lot of friends--he's withdrawn since his wife died in a car accident. Compartmentalizes his thinking--rarely takes mental journeys back into the past.

#ScribesAndMakers Jun 27: If someone wanted to learn your art/craft, what advice would you give?

1. Read. A lot. In all genres but more in your chosen one.
2. Keep a journal/blog/diary daily. If you want to write, these places are where you practice away from prying eyes.
3. Find like minds. Other writers aren't competition; they're companions.

#WritersCoffeeClub 6/27. Share an experience of writing in a restrictive format (sonnet, drabble, haiku, novella, script, etc).

I wrote before about writing villanelles in poetry workshop and the satisfaction it gave me--it was like solving a puzzle to make the meters, repeated lines, formula, etc. work together for something beautiful to emerge.

#PennedPossibilities 712 — Is your antagonist (or villain) keeping any secrets?

Jeff Beck is--that he knows his father was sexually abusing his sister when she lived in the family home.

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#WordWeavers June 26: MC POV: Would you rather be able to see 1 week into the future on your birthday OR always remember where you put something you keep losing?

Carlton--always finding where he hid his birth certificate this time.
Merrilyn--seeing the future, hands down
Cassie--seeing the future also,

#WritersCoffeeClub June 26: How much of the finished work do you need to have in mind before you start writing?

Depends. Sometimes a whole plot comes to me as a gift. Other times I only have one scene, and I just keep asking myself what happens next.

#ScribesAndMakers June 26. What?

. . . am I writing now? I'm glad you asked. A southern gothic historical fiction set in the 1970's in Pickwick Lake TN and the 1980's in Southaven MS about a couple driven apart by circumstances and their daughter, who discovers she was adopted and works to uncover the family secrets that are too much for her to handle. Titled Looking for Home.