PERSONAL PASSIONS: WRITING
WRITING THAT FIRST NOVEL - OH MY! By Elizabeth MacGregor Elizabeth MacGregor is a former educator and a regular contributor to SideOne.
I have secretly wanted to write more with no restrictions on the number of words – the freeing experience of writing until I have nothing further to say.
include me in their plans.
A LIFETIME OF WRITING I have written for this magazine since its inception, for a blog, have had articles published in national magazines, written business letters for busy professionals and regularly create greeting cards for friends and family. All my life, people have commented positively on
Lying awake in the middle of the night, my thoughts
my writing and encouraged me to write – from an
travel to my characters – those created people who
elementary school teacher to my high school English
inhabit the pages I have been writing. They are
teacher, who coached me in grammar and style for
likeable, complex, and in some cases, deeply flawed.
four years.
I am in love with them.
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I am not sure where they will take me, or if they will
I have secretly wanted to write more with no
I imagine their world, how they feel, what stirs them
restrictions on the number of words – the freeing
to action, what crushes them into despair. I can be
experience of writing until I have nothing further
surprised by what they say or a decision they make.
to say.
SIDEONE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021
