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Tracking Happiness: Chapter 3

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 26, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 3

This is CHAPTER 3 in our series offering gossip, novel backstory, and personal confessions about TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. We’re working our way through a novel here. If you’re just now discovering us, you can jump in now or go back to the first entry and catch up. If you jump in, I can’t promise you it won’t be confusing,...

TRACKING HAPPINESS: CHAPTER 2

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 24, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on TRACKING HAPPINESS: CHAPTER 2

This is CHAPTER 2 in our series offering gossip, novel backstory, and personal confessions about TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. We’re working our way through a novel here. If you’re just now discovering us, you can jump in or go back to the first entry and catch up. If you jump in now, I can’t promise you it won’t be confusing,...

The Hart Women Step Out

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 23, 2019. Posted in General, GRIEF, Writing. 2 Comments on The Hart Women Step Out

This Saturday April 27th at 5:00 Central time in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, my family saga novel THE HART WOMEN will make its public appearance. THE HART WOMEN was created by Marisa Whitsett Baker and me. I wrote the story (and revised it and re-wrote it and re-revised it, but that’s what “wrote” means.) Marisa created...

Have You Eaten an Alligator Gizzard?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 22, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Have You Eaten an Alligator Gizzard?

Today we start a series offering funny commentary on TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. You’ll enjoy the gossip, novel backstory, and personal revelations whether you’ve read the novel or not. If you haven’t read it, this “one chapter at a time” approach might just suit you to a T. Every Monday,...

Ruffles in the Front

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 23, 2019. Posted in FASHION, Writing. 3 Comments on Ruffles in the Front

I have been a fashion maverick ever since my three-year-old self tugged on her ruffled panties, backwards. “Your panties are on backwards,” my mother said, pointing at my britches as I examined the cascading layers of beautiful white ruffles. “The ruffles go in the back.” “I can’t see them in the back,” I responded and marched confidently...

Bone Folding

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 21, 2019. Posted in General, GOD, GRIEF, LOVE, Writing. 2 Comments on Bone Folding

This is what it looks like before it’s a book. That’s a bone folder. You use it to sharpen your creases. These are pages of the novel THE HART WOMEN being folded into signatures with a bone folder. If you squint, you can tell the pages aren’t consecutive. That’s because they will be sewn together. At that point,...

Books and Beyond

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 19, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Books and Beyond

I loved being at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library this morning for the library’s Books and Beyond Book Club. I was pleased they had me, and they were warm and gracious. I had a prepared a talk, but they had questions right out of the gate. We wound up talking for an hour and a half. It was wide-ranging. The ostensible topic was my...

“Never, Never, Never” Goes Live

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 15, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. 2 Comments on “Never, Never, Never” Goes Live

We interrupt the (ceaseless) sharing of Lenten Beauty to offer an announcement: “Never, Never, Never” is now live at Connotation Press. Years ago, “Never, Never, Never” was judged by Ron Rash to be the winner of the Tennessee Writers Association Fiction contest. The win did not come with publication. I was lucky enough...

So It’s Out in the World…

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 6, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. 6 Comments on So It’s Out in the World…

I’m grateful to Literary Orphans for publishing this essay/prose poem/whatever of mine. And the accompanying artwork is great. The title is Atomirotica. It’s got an attitude. 🙂 If you look closely at this photo, you’ll see the image of Miss Atom Bomb (or something like that). My very own refrigerator magnet collection Hope...

The Plates (or chainsaws)

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 3, 2019. Posted in FASHION, General, Writing. 4 Comments on The Plates (or chainsaws)

I am a plate juggler. (Or, as my former senior law partner called it, a chainsaw juggler. ) I have a lot of projects going at once. Right now, I’m running as hard as I can after my goal of “getting my work out there.” This gives me five projects in various stages of completion. Here they are. (I don’t expect you to remember...