Want a place to share your strengths and learn new skills? Want to ask for help in improving the quality of your writing in a safe, supportive environment? facebook.com/groups/writers… #HWFonTwitter #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction

"Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too." — Esther Freud #WritingCommunity #writing

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage." - Cynthia Ozick #WritingCommunity #writing

“Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality.” ― Hari Kunzru #writingcommunity #writerslife #amwriting #writingquote

there are. so many humans in the household right now. the odds that a snack. will hit the floor. are the highest they have been. in several years

picking which idea to write next is 50% deciding if it sounds cool and 584% deciding if you love it enough to rewrite it about forty times

My new book, Chief Corn Tassel, is available for pre-orders! Historical narrative and biography of the eighteenth-century Beloved Man, peace chief and orator. Connections to John Watts, Robert Benge, Nancy Ward, Sequoyah, and others. #Cherokeehistory finishinglinepress.com/product/chief-…

Sent these off today.

Some breakfast morsels for the mind #RedSnowLtd outsideonline.com/outdoor-advent…

My short fiction is up Esoterica Magazine. Thanks to Leah Eichler. I love the artwork. esotericamag.com/the-tea-leaves/

Happy to have my work published again Wingless Dreamer. My poem is included in the anthology, "Vanish in Poetry.” Thanks to Ruchi Acharya #winglessdreamer.

FLP Historical NarrativeBOOK OF THE DAY: Chief Corn Tassel by Mitzi Dorton TO ORDER GO TO: finishinglinepress.com/product/chief-… RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY Mitzi Dorton is a multi-genre writer, a former postsecondary learning specialist and educator.#HistoricalFiction #historicalnarrative

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." --Anaïs Nin #writingcommunity #writingquote

My essay is up today at The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Thanks to Valerie MacEwan. You can read it here: deadmule.com/mitzi-dorton-e…

what is writing if not rewriting the part you just wrote

You're shining like a diamond in the sky. Keep on writing.

#DeptofCongrats: Mitzi Dorton's book, CHIEF CORN TASSEL, the historical narrative account of an important hero left out of early American history, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. ✍️ ow.ly/qL0r50Jcpxz

The blooms, mute gods, bend their faces toward my cries and promise nothing. —Rachel Mallalieu rattle.com/i-tell-my-son-…

“Women Speak” is a lavish mix of Appalachian female voices—northern, central, southern, Affrilachian, Indigenous, LQBTQ, those with disabilities and developmental differences. An evening of story, poetry and song—every voice raised in tribute to Appalachia! #ohiopoetlaureate