Why thank you Cathy Kennedy for presenting me with the Stylish Blogger Award! What better way to start off the new year than with such a compliment from a fellow blogger/writer I admire. Here’s what Cathy said about my blog: Enter the Between: A Writer’s Journey is by Margaret Duarte, a fellow author. We’ve came together through […]
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Incorporating Fragments of Conversation Into Fiction
For a homework assignment in a creative writing class at UCDavis Extension, I was asked to write an incident that included a fragment of conversation, keeping as close to the actual incident as possible. 250 words. Next, I was to write an invented scene containing that same fragment of conversation. 250 words. In other words, I was to: Incorporate […]
Inventing from Place / Alto Angel
The following scene was written in response to an “Inventing from Place” assignment given in my Tools of the Writer’s Craft class through UCDavis Extension. It was later included in Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, book three of my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series. We were asked to think of a place that we found either particularly […]
Journal Treasures – Writing a Book
While scavenging through old journals for inspiration, I came across an entry I’d written January 1, 2003 about writing a book. Writing a Book A new year begins. A fresh start. Many hopes. Many dreams. One of my wildest dreams is to complete my first novel. I finished writing it a year ago, but it isn’t complete. I’ve […]
The Tule Review 2010 Summer Issue
I just got word that one of my poems has been selected to be included in the summer 2010 issue of The Tule Review, published by the Sacramento Poetry Center. Just so you know, I’m not a poet. I got lucky on this one. I wrote it in my Structure and Style class at UCDavis Extension. […]
