Those Heartbreaking Put-downs
I thought I was going to devote my first blog to the whys behind my desire to write stories. A grand effort to help everyone understand the events that led up to my decision to become a novelist. However, something else has taken center stage over the last few weeks and I feel a strong pull to address it. Oddly enough, it came as the result of attending a writer’s conference in Sanibel Island, Florida. It is the concept of the put-down. If you look in a dictionary, you will see many uses for the two word phrase. In some cases, with a very positive definition. Sadly, in most cases, with just the opposite. I myself came across definitions such as: to bring to an end, to degrade, to criticize, and to squelch. There...
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