First Issue: Green Country Magazine and Literary Journal

Robin and I hope you all have enjoyed the time we spent together as much as we did. We also hope you may have gained more understanding of short story writing and to keep writing daily.

The short story – the subject we are currently exploring in our life group – is something of a misnomer because it is usually over a thousand words but less than 10,000.

We discussed “tension” last week and why it is good to have this element present in stories. The fact is, tension can be more internal than external when the character realizes they have special abilities but is torn between using them and just being a normal person.

Another great meeting and fellowship with our Creative Writing Life Group.

We were privileged to learn more about our church-family members as we found interesting segues into the kinds of writing that surfaced. We were also pleasantly surprised at the diversity of themes .