Dream of becoming a reporter?

Carriers in journalism, part-time or full-time, abound. At POYNTER you can learn at your own pace and it's not expensive. Check it out! Poynter.org
http://www.poynter.org 

From paper to screen

Do you think your book would be a great movie? You will never know until you try. 

On The Aspiring Screenwriter’s Guide to Page One are some interesting guidelines. 

https://screencraft.org/2016/05/23/aspiring-screenwriters-guide-page-one/

Marta C. Weeks, Author: About VIRGINS

Marta C. Weeks, Author: About VIRGINS: VIRGINS,  book one of the Sylph series is approximately 45 thousand words. Pitch: "The Archangel becomes AYEK...

Learn Ancient Greek: 1_Introduction to learning Ancient Greek

A freebie that keeps on giving...

Want your characters to grab readers? Here is a freebie you can get download into most of your devices. Free downloads of Crafting Unforgettable Characters   http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/confirmed/

Freebies I share with you

I love to share information that can help all, not just writers, live a good life and prosper. Here is one for writers:
The Freelance Writer's Battle by Ian Chandler

Do you read when writing?

This article: "How does what you read affect your writing, " by Laura Moss, quotes Stephen King, "If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that," memoir, "On Writing." 

When writing new work I don't read because the story comes in a stream from my subconscious and all my senses are involved. Virgins came to me over several months and after overcoming weeks of fear and terror I would get up at night and write. After I sense that my subconscious is tapped or I have completed initial writing I read, research and read to learn about the visions or apparitions that have come to me.

With Virgins I had to do months of research and reading after the initial months of visions, apparitions and in fear of what I was seeing, feeling: all my senses on alert and involved. I even saw a therapist, called my best friend repeatedly, went overnight where my husband was staying when working out of town, sought help from my priest and got psychic readings, very scary readings, thought I was going nuts. Stuff I couldn't explain kept happening around me. My writing became so compulsive I wrote until the wee hours but was able to function during the day as if pumped up by adrenaline.

In the months and years that followed, I read all I could find online about the places, apparitions, ideas and to look and verify what seemed facts and most of them to my dread, where facts even the times before I was even born in this life. I started attending a writing group that went on for 5 years.

I wrote other stuff after awhile but the story of the Sylph kept me engrossed. Two years ago my husband and I went to Europe, of the two weeks we spent several days in Lalin Spain, a city near the Pontevedra Coast, where a lot of the book takes place. The experience felt supernatural to both of us.

Also, writing to me is a true labor of love, I have to edit and have others edit for me a lot because I was dyslexic and in my days as a youth that was not diagnosed correctly. English is not my birth language. I came to the U. S. when I was about nine, the first time. Also in college and in my occupation I had to read and write a lot. Like on this article, I check it myself with spell check and Grammarly and pass it by my husband to ensure it's not riddled with errors.