Finding the Best Words to Tell the Story

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

” And that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”   (Gertrude Stein) Words – the tools of a writer’s trade. Words tell your story. Words make your characters leap off the page and come to life. Words plunge those characters …

Counting Butterflies and Editing Galleys

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

The butterfly counts not months, but moments, and has time enough. … Rabindranath Tagore We’ve had a beautiful summer here in Kentucky – the first one in several years where we had enough rain to keep the fields green into August. I took a walk this week through our hayfield before my husband mowed it and counted butterflies. Well, not …