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Author: sheilahudsonwriter

Grandpa’s Writing Legacy

On 16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022 By sheilahudsonwriterIn Articles, Memoir Writing, Opal WritersLeave a comment

After my grandfather’s death, I helped my mother sort through her father’s trunk. Stuck inside were ration cards from the early 1900s with pencil scribbles in his familiar hand. Written no doubt during WWI by firelight and faded almost beyond recognition.

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THINK Like a WRITER

On 24 May 20227 Jun 2022 By sheilahudsonwriterIn Opal Writers, Writers MuseLeave a comment

Ideas are always circling us. Like young children with butterfly nets, it is our job to catch a few and develop them into stories with strong leads, robust middles, and fabulous endings.

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The Shower Muse

On 8 Apr 202228 May 2022 By sheilahudsonwriterIn Articles, Opal Writers, Writers MuseLeave a comment

Think about the last time and place you got a great idea or solved a problem that’d been plaguing you. Where were you? The answer is a cliché: You were probably in the shower – Christine Carter

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A Writer’s Legacy

On 21 Mar 202228 May 2022 By sheilahudsonwriterIn Improve Your Writing, Opal WritersLeave a comment

Becoming a grandmother coincided with the big five-o. I pondered what legacy I could leave my very first grandchild. I decided upon a journal. I am after all a writer. I was anxious to chronicle how special this life was to our family.

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Recipe For Delicious Writing

On 7 Feb 202222 Apr 2022 By sheilahudsonwriterIn Improve Your Writing, Opal Writers1 Comment

What do I need to reach the delicious writing goal? You need a host of fresh characters, imaginative plotting, soupçon of back-story, descriptive settings, minimal but creative description, tension leading up to conflict, theme, subtext, allusion, pacing, climax, resolution, logic, whimsy, surprise, and prose.

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