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T. Satterfield
The coroner called the Sheriff. It was a tiny midwestern town and it wasn't every day that women took to hanging themselves in their sisters' garage. "She ain't wearing no underwear," he said, rubbing his forehead while eyeing my grandmother, already cut down from the rafters and laid out on the cold cement floor. "Better get down here. Might not be suicide. Might be somethin' fishy goin' on here."
T. Satterfield
“Come out, come out,” he whispered, his breath foul, only the bare bush and night between us, “I’ll find you!” he roared. Barely hidden, I covered the baby’s mouth, closed my eyes, then upon opening them I wet myself—the child’s body, limp in my arms.
T. Satterfield
Fingers crossed: I don’t really get blocked. That might be because I feel like the creative process is not something special, but instead something I am participating in all the time. Therefore, there’s no block, there is just the coming and going from it. When I feel like I can’t quite get at what I want, I write about that instead of continuing to struggle with a passage. Odd as that sounds, it usually helps me find my voice and pace again.
T. Satterfield
Telling a story!
T. Satterfield
Write, write, write. Seek input while minding your heart’s desire. Revise. Set aside. Read. Repeat as necessary.
T. Satterfield
I am currently editing my second book. It is a multi-generational family saga about the manipulation of love’s profound power and the suffering such shadow behavior elicits. At the same time, I am outlining my third book, Love in a Loveless World. Set in a post-apocalyptic, the protagonist’s world is turned upside down when she learns of the well-guarded secret regarding the world's state. A dilemma ensues as she grapples with a lifetime of misunderstanding. Finally, risking her death she sets out to find the matriarchal utopia where health and well-being have been preserved and sustain the evolution of humanity.
T. Satterfield
I have been writing and making art since elementary school. Creative expression is natural for me, and I fear I would perish without its practice in my life. Having said that, just about anything inspires my creative process. Often, it is initiated by the desire to share something with someone else—whether that be flowers in the window box, the details of a party, a painting, or a story.
T. Satterfield
For centuries, love has been possibly our most misunderstood experience. Some of our greatest human suffering arises from this pervasive misconception and the manipulation of love’s profound power. Yet love is the experience we credit with the greatest meaning. We devote our life to its pursuit.
First organized after my What is Love? workshop, my clients were the impetus for a self-help book. But then the characters showed up and inspired me to make it personal. Magical realism entered the picture, and the story part wrote itself.
First organized after my What is Love? workshop, my clients were the impetus for a self-help book. But then the characters showed up and inspired me to make it personal. Magical realism entered the picture, and the story part wrote itself.
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