Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

For Readers

Back Up your Blog!

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Have you backed up your blog? I’m talking about your posts AND your template. If not, do it now. As they say over at WordPress.org: Your database “…contains every post, every comment and every link you have on your blog. If your database gets erased or corrupted, you stand to lose everything you have written. There are many […]

Journal Treasures / Sweet Fluid of Expression

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Every so often, I share something I’ve written in one of my journals to let readers in on how the mind of at least one writer works. Here’s an entry from 2003, two years into the writing of my first novel , Between Will and Surrender, and when I was about to start my second, Between Darkness and Dawn.  Journal Entry, June 19, 2003 […]

Write About Your Feelings / Bereavement

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  Guest blogger Dorothy Skarles is back to highlight a subject close to her heart.Bereavement. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, bereavement is a noun; a state or fact of being.  But in the post that follows, Dorothy turns it into a verb. By that I mean, Dorothy shares her emotional response to loss in a […]

Blogging, Love It, Hate It

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Sometimes I love blogging. Sometimes I hate it. Today I hate it. I’d rather be pulling weeds. I’d rather be cleaning house. I need to get my rear off the chair and get some exercise. This once fine-tuned body is turning into jelly. How can I speed up this writing process so it won’t take […]

Dash Off a Memory / Create a Memoir, Lesson One

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Note to Reader: My friend and critique partner, Dorothy Ann Skarles, has generously offered to share one of her lessons on how to create a memoir. Dorothy taught memoir writing at Lodi Adult School until her retirement. She is the author of two novels and one non-fiction book, Learning to Write the Easy Way, published by Twilight […]