August 24th~GREAT NEWS!! I have been accepted for membership to the Cottonwood Center for the Arts!! I've decided to go with an Associate's Membership to start. I am signed up to study / practice watercolor painting in the Fall under local master artists. Next year, if space is available, I may then be ready to set up my own studio space at the center (pictured above). Click the link above to learn more!
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Also, I've joined the PIKE'S PEAK WRITER'S ASSOCIATION and have begun writing a Novel, loosely based on my brother, Dwight's life as experienced through my eyes. Members meet monthly to network, conduct workshops on the aspects of writing. We have contests, critque sessions and the privilage of meeting published authors to pick their brains, too. Wish me luck~I appreciate your support, very much!!!
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TAKE A PEEK INSIDE THE BOOK HERE:
....'Susie and her brothers peered down the hallway from the living room, as their father leaned into the mirror in the bathroom, wearing boxer shorts and a white t-shirt. He slathered foamy lotion with a brush across his chin, over his cheeks and upwards along his adam's apple. Taking a sharp razor from the stand on the sink, he drew the sharp side of the razor over the nubs from his face. Susie sat quietly with her brothers, as mother had ordered on the sofa, anticipating the three weeks without the usual fear of his late night drunken whippings with the buckle end of his leather belt. t
The fear of her father was soon overshadowed for what Raymond might have in mind for her.
Danny couldn't sit still despite Susie's hushed reminders. Her hand on his leg to stop him didn't work. She grew anxious as her little brother fidgeted, though quietly as he could on her left side. Raymond, seated to Susie's right, shed a glaring glance her way from the corner of his steely-grey-blue eye. With a slight upturn in the corner of his lip, he whispered, ‘Let the games begin.’ |
