DCatherineWritersWeb

Hi all, I'm always in the process of updating and improving my website as I go along.  I've added a page of my writing credits and a photo album that I will add to once in a while.  One of the photos carries with it a suggestion on how to use it as a creative writing exercise for writers who enjoy creative exercises just for the fun of it. 

I have a link to my blog at Yahoo ! [ 360.yahoo.com/catydorr224 ] for the comments and replies on anything and everything related to writing or other creative endeavors.  Please feel free to visit the site, read and comment or just read.

I hope you all enjoy a venture into part of who I am.   Thank you for visiting.  

I am a proud user of PayPal as it relates to my critique and edit service.    dorry

 Welcome to a part of my world.  A place of continuing renewal as I develop the many wonderful things I plan to do with the rest of my life. 

Please feel free to look around, check out links, read clips of my Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Creative Nonfiction. 

Visit Thoughts From My Desks and enjoy some thoughts  on writing: the pleasures, the aches and pains.   

And before life gets in the way, please sign my Guest Book or drop me a line.  Thank you for being here and sharing a small bit of what I do.   

SOMETHING OLD: 

• Retired as an educator after thirty plus years teaching reading, writing and 'rithmetic' to students at the upper elementary levels, I am published in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. 
• Volunteered as an online contest judge and Review Editor with Future Mysteries Anthology Magazine until recently. 
• I know what it is like to be rejected, accepted and to market my work and myself. 
• Been there, done that.  Want to know more about me, click here

SOMETHING NEW:

• I am proud to be a member of the St. Louis Writers Guild and the Saturday Writers in St. Peters, Missouri, chapters of the Missouri Writers Guild
• As President for the Writers' Society of Jefferson County, [WSJC] a chapter of the Missouri Writers Guild and as Network Coordinator, I have come to know and enjoy the company and respect of other writers such as myself. 
• In the creation of the affiliate WSJC Third Saturday Writers Networking Group, I moderate the writers workshop including presentations of different aspect of the writing craft as well as facilitate the critiques and edits of members writings.
• I moderate a couple of online writers' groups and I conduct an online critique and editing business from this website.
• Having completed a presentation on The Art of Marketing Your Writing and You, I gained in my knowledge of presenting workshop online and local and have since, given workshops on the Art of Show, Focus on Creativity and The Four Dimensional Character. 
• I produce writing articles freelance for several online organizations including Long Ridge Writers Institude and Visions: A Resource for Writers. 
• I have completed the two year writing course "Breaking into Print" from the Long Ridge Writers Institude and am now working on their pilot novel course.
• A press release on a personal essay accepted by Senator John Edwards family as a part of their book, Homes: Blueprint of Our Life, published by Collins Harper.  The release is available for reading HERE.
• I have started my collection of life's vignettes titled Kaleidoscope, Swirls of Life,  due out in the fall of 2007.
• And my ultimate goal for which I have just started research is a historical novel based on the letters written between my paternal grandparents from 1904 to 1906 when they married. 

I can be reached at dcatherine@sbcglobal.net

Something Borrowed

What a great thing for me to comment on right here--"something borrowed".  What in my life could possibly be borrowed?  Encouragement, support, good will, best wishes, good grace of God........and these are only the short list.

Without the wonderful writers in my life, new, old and the inbetween, who have held my life, listened to me scream and commisserated with me when nothing was sounding right and going down on paper in decent form I would be nowhere near where I am today.  This is what I have borrowed and I do not pay it back but rather pay it forward.  This is our deal, what I receive, I give to others. 

Something Blue

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