It’s okay to write in anger
One of my mother’s favorite authors, Dorothea Benton Frank was in town this evening for a book signing, so I accompanied Mom on a trip down to the Clinton Book Shop. Dorothea had lots of fun writing stories to share including some horror stories from her first book tour including an ill-fated trip to a Georgia Barnes & Noble where the event manager had quit and no one knew about her arrival and she ended up talking to an audience of two who turned out to just be there for the air conditioning. But my favorite part of her talk was her answer to the question of what got her started writing. She told the audience that it was a fight with her husband that made her decide to start writing. She was mad at her husband for not buying her family home when they...
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