WELCOME

This is the first post of my new site. Thanks to Augusta Scattergood for helping me to create it and to my husband, Butch, for his photograph of one of my favorite Florida places.

Facts, Fiction and Folk Tales will allow me to share all things writing and more. By that I mean the trials, tribulations, joys and successes that pop up in a writing life. Writing tips. Writing discoveries. Writing greats and writing everything.

My only promise is to write about whatever catches my attention, tugs at my heart or speaks to me. Mostly about the ups and down of having a computer as your only co-worker. Sometimes about Florida, since I'm a native.

I like an eclectic range of things and of people and I like to write about them all. Being a writer is a blessing and a curse. You writers out there struggling to write the first paragraph on a blank page get it. Those of you struggling to be published understand. Journalists who want to write fiction for a living and people who think they must leave their day jobs to become a real writer, you know what I mean.

Sometimes it's a hard-luck life, but mostly, it's a life filled with the love of words.

How cool is that?