Gina G writes

                                                        The World Needs Art Tonight, I attended a gathering in support of Art. A building downtown has sold, and another Art Gallery is being pushed out, probably to make way for another (insert heavy, heavy sarcasm) mortgage or Real Estate office.  My mother is an artist, and my father is a wood-making artist. I have a sister who is not only a culinary artist but also a master seamstress and another who is a pianist, flutist, dancer, and performer. I also have two brothers-in-law (one a former) who are musicians. I am a writer. I come from a family of creators. We were taught young to appreciate art. I grew up in St George, Utah. I loved going downtown and checking out the shops. I won a contest in elementary school and got to paint a picture on one of the store windows. Art was appreciated and e...

  The Writers Journey Here is how it goes. After one hour of procrastination, I pull up the manuscript and check where I left off. I read my notes about what I want to achieve. I am generally a "Pantser" when it comes to writing until I get to the middle; then, I become almost a "Plotter." Time to look at pets up for adoption. Or do the elliptical? No! It is writing time. Focus. Where did I leave off? I finish my glass of wine and make some tea.  Many people think that when you write, you simply sit down, and everything comes out perfect. This is not true. We would like it to be true, but it isn't. I can honestly say I have spent the past three weeks rewriting the chapter I am in. First, I reviewed what I had written and checked it for continuity. Were all the characters there? Was the setting correct? Whose point of view was I in? For this chapter, I changed the point of view six times. I had it in Jim's, changed it to Shelly's, changed it to Sam's,...

  The Alphabet Book Challenge:  A One of my New Year's Resolutions is to check out books from the library. I decided to search for book authors alphabetically. I would make a day of picking out the right book and treating myself to a coffee while I read.  The first two books I picked were "Her Name Was Rose" by Claire Allan and "Silence Is A Sense" by Layla Alammar. Both books passed the blurb test, the first line, the first paragraph, and the first page test.  I started with Her Name Was Rose. The story had a good idea: A mousy, neurotic woman witnesses a woman get hit by a car. She finds out the woman's name and stalks her social network sites, reading about her former perfect life. The woman applies for the dead woman's former job. She freshens up her look and tries to be more like the woman who died. Before you know it, the husband comes along, and one thing leads to another. But everything is not as perfect as the woman imagined. In fact, it appears...