Gen Webster Author

 Hello It's been a while since my last post. I have been preparing to travel again (at last) and putting finishing touches to Sandhill Cove. I would like to share with you a little of my writing process. Flora, a character in Dear Maggie , started life as Phoebe and while the details changed in the writing of my book, the piece shows how I develop my characters and am flexible when it comes to the final draft. I hope you enjoy reading this and please feel free to comment.  Thanks, until next time Phoebe: A Self-Portrait There are things in my life that I have tried to forget; to hide them away in shame. Why shame? My mind is in turmoil; my baby is gone. Nothing else matters now. Not Father; not George or Henry; no amount of rejection is equal to the pain that I suffer with the loss of my little girl who is now in the frozen ground outside of the church yard, to endure the cold eternity of the unbaptised. Cruel and unnecessary punishment for being born before it was her time. R...