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When People Don’t Like Your Work

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 17, 2013. Posted in General. No Comments on When People Don’t Like Your Work

At Beth’s Bookstore, I slipped a paperback from the shelf. I read the first line. That’s how I chose a book: the first line, then the first paragraph. Sometimes if I’m unsure, I continue further down the page. Then I either buy the book or I put it back. I’ve been burned using this method—occasionally, a book doesn’t live up to the opening—but...

The Next Big Thing Blog Roll

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 27, 2013. Posted in General. 5 Comments on The Next Big Thing Blog Roll

Thank you to Susan Cushman for including me in this The Next Big Thing Blog Roll project. Susan has been an inspiration to my writing career in many ways, the primary one being her graciousness in inviting me into the writing community. To me—who is so focused on community—her immediate welcome has meant a lot. Like so many participating in this...

A Novel I Love More than Christmas

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 26, 2012. Posted in General. 2 Comments on A Novel I Love More than Christmas

How Not to Choose a Freelance Editor

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 13, 2012. Posted in General. No Comments on How Not to Choose a Freelance Editor

Terrible in its Sorrow

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 26, 2012. Posted in General. 1 Comment on Terrible in its Sorrow

Sometimes I read what I’ve written and I think, how could you do that? The Bone Trench novel is pocked with very brief flashbacks of the deaths of the bones in the trenches. Despite their brevity, they are intense. When I re-read them, I wonder how I could write scenes filled with such sorrow. I’ve just finished revising a short story...

Writing Theory into Reality

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 7, 2012. Posted in General. No Comments on Writing Theory into Reality

Finally, I wrote an ending to my novel that makes me cry. Most of the rest of the novel makes me laugh – a phenomenon I think is so strange, that something I wrote – I know the joke, right? – can make me laugh. But when it comes to resolution, I want to feel it reverberating in my heart, welling up in my tears, spilling over...