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The Horror of Grammar and the Grammar of Horror
One gloomy fall in the late 1900s, three insidious forces entered my life at the exact same moment, leading to a season of sorrow and fear the likes of which I have never experienced since. I was a college student, fresh-faced, innocent, and enjoying my first taste of intellectual freedom. Like one of H.P. Lovecraft’s tragic heroes, I was searching for esoteric knowledge to improve my lot in life, and like one of those damned academics, I soon found myself sunk deep into a morass of sinister studies. It was my treacherous advisor – all helpful solicitation during our
Member Spotlight: Jan Parker
This week I was lucky enough to cross paths with the creative mind of Jan Parker. I discovered that her involvement in the arts community past and present is extraordinary, that the more you are involved, the better artist you become, and that community is the silent partner of all our artistic endeavors. Her current involvements include NCWN, NC Writers' Conference, the Authors Guild, the Arts Council of Carteret County, Bank of the Arts Craven County, the Renegades Writers, the Wildacres Artist in Residency Selection Committee and Fiction Editor for Main Street Rag. Favorite book as a child and
Eddy Says Be Nice to Editors
September is Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month, and we’ve planned our blog and our Third Thursday event accordingly. We’re kicking off the month with the return of our own spicy Southern writer and editor Jan Parker. Around here, you know her for her whipsmart Eddy Says posts that dole out editorial wisdom to writers looking to get published. Out in the world, she’s an award-winning author, the former Trustee for the NC Writers Network, and the fiction editor for Main Street Rag. Come out to Reed’s in Morehead City on September 21 from 4:00 pm - 6:00
Inspiration, Internal
It’s been sweltering. The kind of hot that makes my outdoorsiness wish for higher altitudes and cooler temperatures. When the words “heat index” enter the conversation, I tend to shut down, authorizing my mind to stray to a happier place, maybe a mountain stream or shady spot accompanied by an umbrellaed beverage. I love the summer and try to refrain from talking about the atmospheric moisture content. I don’t even like to speak the words relative humidity, lest they overpower me, but July and August of 2023 have wrestled me into a choke hold, demanding that I notice them
Afloat With Hooks and Lines
As we wind down summer, I’d like to tell you about the recent Hooks and Lines Workshop Series. In May and June, thanks to the initiative of Carteret Writers Secretary Autumn Ware and Carteret Community College (CCC) Continuing Education Coordinator Heather Boney, our two organizations partnered to offer a six-week series of writing workshops covering several genres. Autumn, owner of Aware Copywriting, kicked it off with a session on Creative Play - doing writing exercises that felt like shuffling and dealing words in collaborative and individual creative writing card games. As a group we started “Thinking Like a
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