What Is In A Face?

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The Circle of Life. In my post this month on WEP (check it out at the link below the image), I need to share faces of those who have come and those who have gone. In February 2013 my sister and I lost our father (Archie) and two months later she lost a very, very dear friend (Marc) who had greatly influenced her life. After our father’s passing, a new life was born into our family (Alienor) and helped, with a strong yet gentle touch, to bring a sense of healing amidst our grief. Another new life came to us (Emma) after the loss of my sister’s friend. In January 2014 my mother, very suddenly lost her brother, our uncle Phil. We are all still reeling from this. Then, as if planned, yet again, the birth of a new life in our family (Ruby) has brought the same strong yet gentle touch of healing as before. The circle of life personified. I cry and I laugh when I think of this. I mourn, but also cherish the life gone and the life beginning. What is in a face? A whole lifetime lived. A whole life yet to be lived. Memories, and hope. Cherish the faces you see every day. Don’t be afraid of losing them, but don’t take them for granted either. The circle of life is present in every face you see.

Archie, Dad 2-12-13

Alienor, second cousin, 2-22-13

Marc, our friend

Emma, family

Uncle Phil, 1-22-14

Ruby Lu, family 1-30-14

IWSG for February

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Join all of us Insecure Writers for our monthly support blog if you so wish. You can find a list of all the blogs participating in the link below the IWSG image... A hearty thanks goes out to our co-hosts this month...Sheena-kay Graham, Julie Musil, Jamie Ayres, and Mike Swift

Hello All, Sorry my post is late today but here it is none the less. I wanted to share the last month of my writing life with you, to share the “slog” of the “One Draft At a Time” check list that I am following, for the first time, on my current work in progress. Slog is such a descriptive word and for a writer, not a bad one. It says it all.

Mary Burton, www.maryburton.com , author of numerous works, mostly romantic suspense, gave a workshop that I attended last October. Her workshop was based on the One Draft At a Time system that she developed and uses herself. It is a thorough and thought-provoking process that has me at times pulling hair, because it involves a lot of “slogging” through, but you have to pay such attention to detail that I hope to find, at the end, that it has all been worth it! This is WORK! But writing does, eventually, come down to just that, work. Mary uses a six or seven draft system where you use each draft to check on only one thing, like a certain word, or whether the structure is good, or if the story flows. Each of these steps has their own draft. Of course there is much more to it than that, but I can’t go into details because it is her copy-written process and I honor that. Being somewhat uninspired right now, yet determined, I thought the journey I'm on a perfect subject to write of today. I hope (REALLY) to find at the end, that the process, the road map she has laid before me, will lead me to the destination that I seek. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to slog through until I know I have produced the best work I possibly can.What about you? Do you have a set process you use to edit/revise? Thanks for dropping by!

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