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About Mary Lois Sanders | my other zone
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In search of a new voice. About Mary Lois Sanders. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). Revisions – Setting. About Mary Lois Sanders. My family and friends think I’m too busy to be a ‘retired person’ and they are correct. A writer never retires only chooses when to work and when to play. I choose to keep writing and play golf (lots). I’m not too bad at golf, actually. I have a 21 handicap and two holes-in-one (okay, I’m bragging a Diva-moment! And the winner is . The Creative Writer’s Notebook. I am also a musici...
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Revisions – Setting | my other zone
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In search of a new voice. About Mary Lois Sanders. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). Revisions – Setting. Revisions – Setting. According to Jordan Rosenfeld in her book. One of the key ingredients of any story, novel, or scene, is a rich physical setting that calls on all the senses and enables the reader to see and enter into the world you’ve created. [1]. Jordan recommends that the writer assume the role of tour guide describing what can be and should be. You want your reader to be. Setting for your story...
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Thank you soldiers! | A refugee's journey – Vietnam to Australia
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A refugee's journey – Vietnam to Australia. November 27, 2016. January 15, 2017. It’s been a deep desire in me, for almost forever, to express my gratitude from the bottom of my heart to the dead and alive Australian and American soldiers. Every year, I always buy the commemorative souvenirs for ANZAC, Remembrance Day and Legacy Week. The sights of those souvenir selling stalls at shopping malls make me feel bereft and grieving for the fallen Australian servicemen and servicewomen. I have a friend whose ...
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NaNoWriMo | Morningside Drive
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8212; by turtlemom3 @ 10:43 am. National Novel Writing Month. This has got to be the MEME of all MEME’s! Ya’ know – there just aren’t enough hours and minutes in a day already, but I let myself get “sucked in” by NaNoWriMo [ National Novel Writing Month. And now I find a mystery novel oozing out of my fingers. The name will be Left Wheel Forward. 8220;An older woman, confined to a wheelchair and in chronic pain. It’s fun, however, to play around with “what if’s.”. You can keep track of my progress with t...
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Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014) | my other zone
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In search of a new voice. About Mary Lois Sanders. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). Revisions – Setting. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). The Luncheon – Brownies! These are addition photos just arrived from the Governor’s Mansion official photographer. Enjoy! Menu – Quiche Lorraine, and Mts. Scott’s own Chicken Salad recipe. Mary Lois and Tom with First Lady Ann Scott. MLS and First Lady Ann Scott. Secretary of State Ken Detzner, Co-Host of the Luncheon. 8220;Florida’s Finest” by W. Stanley Proctor. I like that la...
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my other zone | in search of a new voice | Page 2
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In search of a new voice. About Mary Lois Sanders. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). Revisions – Setting. February 21, 2012 3 Comments. Our county’s inspection office is rigorous and thorough. In fact, these people are notorious in the construction industry here in central Florida but that’s a good thing! Who wants to learn after-the-fact that that new roof wasn’t tied down according to the 1996 hurricane building regulations? I almost hate to move in, though. It’s so pristine and pure so glistening! There are...
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Enriching Your Narrative | my other zone
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In search of a new voice. About Mary Lois Sanders. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). Revisions – Setting. By Mary Lois Sanders and Sarah Nell Summers*. You have your story idea and its setting, but how do you write it so that your readers experience the characters, places, objects, sights, sounds and smells of the book’s world without info dumping? Simple, you weave. Description into your scenes organically. If not, how far are you willing to go to do so? Edwin Crisp, author of A Moving Toy Shop. Here’s a thou...
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No Kidding! I WON! | my other zone
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In search of a new voice. About Mary Lois Sanders. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). Revisions – Setting. April 1, 2014 8 Comments. What did I win? The SILVER MEDAL in the Young Adult Category of the FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS for. I am so over the moon on this! Of course, first I had to enter that’s important. And to have friends and sister writers at the St. George Women’s Writers Gathering ( http:/ fictionamongfriends.com. Urge me to enter was super GREAT! What a whirlwind tour, these awards events:. Then in the e...
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About My Blog | my other zone
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In search of a new voice. About Mary Lois Sanders. Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014). Revisions – Setting. I didn’t just get up one morning and say to myself I think I’ll start blogging today! I thought about it for at least a week! So why have I chosen to write one? Writers should write, and not just in their own comfort zones. My comfort zone though not an easy one to survive in is writing for children getting inside their heads, living their lives, seeing and hearing and feeling as they do. January 1, 2011 a...
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8 Reasons Why I’m Grateful For the People in My Life | Against the Herd
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Whenever you find that you're on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain, 1904. Letters To A Much Younger Me. 8 Reasons Why I’m Grateful For the People in My Life. November 25, 2013. I’m thankful for the people in my life. As I considered all of the things for which I’m grateful, I realized they were all people. Life is all about the people who impact us and the people whom we impact. It’s people who’ve made my life what it is. 2 I am grateful for my two sons. Whose love, in...
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