INTERVIEW by ANNETTE MARIE GRIFFIN and ALMOST AN AUTHOR

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Interview by Annette Marie Griffin

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EMBRACE THE WAIT

Find Your Fellow Tesserae and Stick Together (Part 3): Don’t allow setbacks to keep you from chasing your writing dreams.

February 5, 2021

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INTRODUCTION by ANNETTE MARIE GRIFFIN

In this series of posts I’m interviewing writers who God has placed in my life to complete His divine mosaic. Each piece of a mosaic is called a tesserae. I’d like to introduce another tesserae in my mosaic—Patricia Tiffany Morris. I first met Patricia through an online critique group. The combination of her technical expertise and artistic talent blew me away, but it was Patricia’s willingness to take the time, apart from our regular meetings, to lovingly share her knowledge that caused me to consider her a dear friend.

Patricia had a huge publishing dream. She worked hard and invested time and money to plan for that dream. Finally, the time to realize that dream came and … a series of major technical setbacks threatened to steal the joy of seeing her dream come to fruition.

But God…

1) Briefly explain the original dream/plan for your journals

After my husband retired, and the empty nest stage of life arrived, we had little capital, but enormous dreams.

We brainstormed ideas to create a residual income for ourselves and our children after our death. Leaving a legacy, using my skills in creative writing and art, sparked my imagination. With my architectural and design background, I sketched plans and details of a perfect tiny house nestled in the mountains of North Carolina. I designed a home in college in the style of Sarah Suzanka’s Not So Big House, and continue to write and draw, filling stacks of notebooks and journals.

Two years ago, I pulled out a planner concept I’d developed over the past 20 years, still in a folder with no concrete plans.

A fresh idea germinated. One that planted itself between my desire to write and create art, and my need for organization.

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