I have been writing "with intent" for the last ten years. Because I am a "plotter," I know where my story is headed, how it will end, and who will step onto...
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~ Holly Bebernitz
Wednesdays—Writing
A history of my novel series, posted for the 31 Days of Blogging challenge.
Who Said What When
Dream an impossible dream, set to work, watch it materialize, see it just beyond your grasp… almost within reach…falter…demand of yourself what you think...
Write Right
On the off chance a future or fellow writer is reading this installment, I thought it might be helpful to include some of the mechanics of getting a book from...
Enter Agnes Quinn
If you have seen The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, busy writing “The Christmas Carol,” you will have observed an...
Perchance to Dream
Once I began blogging in a consistent manner, I queried my reading public about what kinds of topics they would like to explore. One suggestion was that I...
Two Roads and Counting
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, wrote Robert Frost. The lesson: choose one and that “makes all the difference.” But be advised: after you choose one, you...
The Stories that Made Me
When I was five, I read Little Yip-Yip and His Bark, by Kathryn and Byron Jackson, a Little Golden book, clothbound, purchased from a used book sale from the...
Writing 101: Hard-Knox College
A ttend writers’ groups, seminars, and conferences. B e confident. Put words on paper and let someone read what you have written. C reate a...
Under Construction
Elements of Style. On Writing. Plot and Structure. Aspects of the Novel. Four titles out of who knows how many on “how to write.” Read all the books you want,...
A Hobby By Any Other Name
The word—spoken—hung in the air like the rain cloud over Eeyore’s head. Hobby. The tax man uttered the term casually, when, in the process of reporting my...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
