I’ve heard that writers need to find a niche and then directly address a niche-specific audience. But in order to do so, the writer must first figure out who that audience is. Each of us, of course, hopes our work will enjoy universal appeal, when more than likely it will attract one segment of the […]
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Just for Fun
A Word from My Protagonist Dear Reader, My name is Marjorie Veil Sunwalker. Margaret Duarte, the writer of this novel, believes she has created me. She believes she has made up the events and details of my journey. What she doesn’t realize is that I have been with her for a long, long time. She […]
Writing Samples
Below are five scenes I wrote in response to prompts assigned by teachers in my creative writing classes at UC Davis Extension. They do not represent the genre of visionary fiction. They do, however, represent my writing style. 1. (Prompt: Write a scene incorporating sound, emotion, texture, and color.) For the first time in his life, Anton regrets never having experimented with […]
Left Brain vs Right Brain Education in Fiction and Nonfiction
However, in my fourth novel, Between Now and Forever, where my protagonist Marjorie Veil takes on a class of troubled middle school students with psychic abilities, a question that naturally arises and becomes a major conflict in the story is the validity of emphasizing left brain vs right brain education in our schools. Why Left Brain vs Right Brain? The following video […]
Freedom is Choice
Giving up freedom I hate losing stuff. I hate losing valuable time. I hate losing friends. I hate losing money. But most of all, I hate losing freedom. I would give up stuff, time, and money for freedom. I’d give up friends who threaten my freedom. Losing my freedom is unacceptable. Pure and simple. Then […]
Images and Symbols / Making the Invisible Visible
“By taking the lid off the unconscious, we can be guided by its knowledge,” says Bernie Siegel, in an article titled Making the Invisible Visible–How dreams and drawings reveal the unknown and invisible. Siegel, a self-described Jungian surgeon, encourages his patients to share, through drawings, their experiences of life and illness. He, in turn, uses these drawings […]
