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When writers come together, something powerful happens. It is more than just a gathering of people who share a passion for writing. It becomes a space where creativity flourishes, voices grow stronger, and stories find new life. Writing can often feel like a solitary journey, but in community, it transforms into a shared adventure that nurtures growth and connection.

There’s a truth as old as time, whispered by the stars and carried in the wind: You are ancient. You are divine! We often move through life forgetting the magnificence of what we are. We get caught in the day-to-day grind, distracted by our roles, our struggles, the divisiveness of politics and religious beliefs, and the noise of the world. But beneath all of it—beneath the labels, the deadlines, the dogma, and the doubts—there is something timeless within us. Something vast,

Many of us keep journals or write poems or songs that we never share with anyone. Well that's the idea behind this quote. Writers write to make sense of the world we see. Not necessarily to inform others, but to take a look at this thing we call the human condition and figure out what it means to be human. All fiction is in a sense autobiographical although the character and the writer may not be anything alike. It's the emotional honesty of the writing that both share.

Some of you don't know me as a writer, so I thought I would share the first chapter of my novel The Other Side of Through. I hope you enjoy it! By the way, I'm so thrilled that 2024 has freed me up to return to my first love, writing! CHAPTER ONE Jessie Magnolia Bay, Georgia, Present Day Jessie gently swayed in one of the white wicker rockers that lined the wraparound porch of her Victorian home on Magnolia Bay, sipping the iced tea she couldn’t quite get right. The house, a