Story Idea or Title: Which Comes First?

I have never had a title pop into my head first. My ideas come from my life, and I have written about this before on the idea to write what you know.

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At this Stage in Writing a Story: The Editorial Process

I’m coming closer to the end of all I can do ‘at this time’ to create a story I hope readers will enjoy. I’m on my second set of edits, and I’m a third of the way through. But. The edits are far from completed. Once I’m finished, I will pass this manuscript on to […]

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Nana’s Goat Farm Butter

Making butter is the easiest dairy to make. I learned it when I was a child at age 12, when I milked a cow. I had to rise at 5:30 on school days to milk. My cow was a beautiful cream-colored Guernsey. She became too scary for me, though, as she was huge and liked […]

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What? We are Moving Again?

My husband and I were very settled into retirement life on our first ever acre of land. He built multiple outbuildings, remodeled ones that were already there, and I grew a large garden and cared for goats and chickens. We had everything as we wanted it. We lived there for four years when trouble moved […]

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Each of Us Has a Question to Answer

Yes, that’s correct. Each of us has a question we might want to answer. My question has to do with the topsy-turvy world we live in today. I had to answer this question: How can I make a difference in today’s world? As the troubles around us heap up, I had to ask a deeper […]

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