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Visualization by Regina McDonald
Visualization. If someone were to ask you to describe the moment when your brain began forming pictures while reading or listening to a book, would you have a moment in time when written words suddenly burst into images of living color, scenes, characters, or experiences? Was there an epiphany moment when stiff, textured, cream-colored pages written in Times New Roman with the smell of ink on paper suddenly transformed into a collection of living, breathing, moving, raw, emotional, pictu
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A short conversation with Aria Ligi
Hammer of God was first conceived as I was writing a screenplay for a character whose personal angst was a kind of mirror to my own. Charlotte, who is the protagonist of the titular poem on page one and is referred to on page seven in the entitled poem Charlotte Dreaming, was raised in the backwoods of West Virginia by evangelical fundamentalist Christians. Charlotte though is different from all of them because she has psychic abilities which they construe to be gifts from the devil. It was from this premise, that I began a series of poems for her which then morphed and expanded from her personal pain to my own.
Is Love the answer? by Kurt Brindley
Is Love the answer? by Kurt Brindley
There’s a rather talkative pigheaded brute of a character in my latest release, a dark, violent thriller called THE GOOD KILL, whose name is Rick, Happy, Henderson.
Happy is an unscrupulous thug of a security guard for an unscrupulous thug of a billionaire mogul and he is quite the talker. He especially loves to philosophize and pontificate to… at?… his work partner Sean, Big Mac, McKnight as if he’s now a subject matter expert about whatever the latest topic is that he’s studying during night school.
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Evolving as a Writer by Dennis Scheel
Evolving as a Writer by Dennis Scheel
As a writer, we all learn a good deal by reading other people’s work, but we must not forget the old rule of experience. The more that we write, the more used to it, we can get. I, for one, 
have a lot to learn. If I look at just my work from a few years ago, I can see how, even in that short time, I have evolved over time. Read More
The Body Nirvana by Garima Gupta (Book Review #635)
Rules of Health By Behzad Azargoshasb (Book Review #634)
Personalized Murder by Jeff Holt (Book Review #633)
Trail of the Hana K’ilo by Channing Whitaker (Book Review #632)
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