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Does your writing need the bonkers factor?

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The other day I wrote a piece of microfiction in response to the prompt ‘A spring memory.’ It was a nice enough bit of writing, answered the prompt and reproduced a real childhood memory. One reader was kind enough to say that she liked it as far as it went, but in her opinion it would be better if it started with the end.
I thought about it, took the end and made it the beginning, and let the story develop from there. It turned into a much more satisfying piece, a combination of two memories, still real enough, but artistically better.
This experience typifies the frustration I currently feel with the publishing industry. All it needed to change a bit of solid, workman-like writing into a piece of good writing was a suggestion. How many manuscripts are turned down by publishers and agents on the grounds that they ‘aren’t…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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