By Joni M. Fisher @authorjonimfisher Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Suggest, don’t tell all. Let the reader connect the dots. Great fiction is more like impressionist artwork than still photography. Beginning writers underestimate their ability to convey meaning, so they repeat a concept, explain it, or otherwise beat the reader over the head …
Montana Magic
by Roxanne D. Hicks My memories of herding sheep for my grandfather, a Sioux Indian, during my childhood summers remain sweet and precious to me. My grandparents lived in the northeastern-most corner of Montana, nestled next to the borders of both Canada and North Dakota. Grandpa owned a flock of three thousand sheep, one of the largest in that area …