Teresa McRae
Passion and ProseAuthor
My latest dilemma. I don’t seem to have much to say these days.
I’m kind of tired. I’m sort of bored. Happens to us all.
And so, I chose a couple of quotes that remind me why I write.
I write because of all those little faces you see in my promo ad. Not to browbeat anyone about the issue of slavery. I don’t personally know anyone who thinks it was a good idea. No, the faces of child slaves break my heart. I am moved by them and so I assume there are others out there moved as well.
I write what moves me. I write about injustices and those that tried to right it; a theme in my first novel as well as in the follow up I am working on now.
I’ve been asked what advice I would give to those wanting to write. Find your passion and write about that. Find the emotions that touch you and you will touch your readers. Most of them anyway.
Have a wonderful weekend.
I have an idea. You know there are a lot of books that deal with people switching places over centuries, but I don’t think I have read one that has a slave switching places with her family member from a future date, so why not write one. The premise could be that an underground railroad link has a snitch, and that person has caused many slaves to be caught and reenslaved, with all of its negative consequences! Either someone from the future reads about what happened and wants to change history, or someone working the railroad link wants to go forward in time to catch a “dirty rotten double dealing killer”, because most of the reenslaved die, after having been hung upside down and whipped! How does this premise sound? Brigitte`Antoinette.
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Intriguing premise.
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Thanks!
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