Creative Writing
My God-daughter and I have started a creative writing project together. At first, it was meant to instill confidence in her writing skills and to encourage her imagination. Little did I know that she would impress me and work very hard at the project which is now progressing into a novel.
I love her creative intuition. She knows how to reign it in,however, so it is not over the top. I'm also impressed that the topic is something fresh and so very different from anything out there already. Most importantly, she is using her knowledge of family heritage and her understanding of her ancestors to inspire creative fiction. She is really putting herself into this book which I'm pleased to help write. As co-authors we are pleased at how this project would draw us together. We constantly have our heads together, plotting, diagramming, scheming and dreaming.
Beach Project: 2,500 words (1st Draft)
Jill's Assistant: 83,102 words (2nd draft)
"Judging the Moore County Goings/Goyens/Goings family, 1794-1917," Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line (BackinTyme Publishing(April 2010) PUBLISHED! I have a meeting with a former US Board of Education member and some Cherokee tribal members on the significance of this book in Native American history. It is time to correct Texas history and add another Native American hero to US and Texas history books.
Cyndie Goins Hoelscher, speaker and author of the essay “Judging the Moore County Goings,Goyens,Goins Family” in Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line, defines her mission as an attempt to get multi-ethnic contributions into US history books. Our history books are imbalanced as they focus mostly on Britain’s colonization efforts beginning with Roanoake and the Lost Colony, while Free Persons of Color, the Spanish and the Portuguese contributions to American history are sadly neglected. Hoelscher is a fifth generation great-grand-niece of William Goyens, Jr.
www.amazon.com/Carolina-Genesis-Beyond-Color-Line/dp/093947932X/ref=sr_1_1
I love her creative intuition. She knows how to reign it in,however, so it is not over the top. I'm also impressed that the topic is something fresh and so very different from anything out there already. Most importantly, she is using her knowledge of family heritage and her understanding of her ancestors to inspire creative fiction. She is really putting herself into this book which I'm pleased to help write. As co-authors we are pleased at how this project would draw us together. We constantly have our heads together, plotting, diagramming, scheming and dreaming.
Beach Project: 2,500 words (1st Draft)
Jill's Assistant: 83,102 words (2nd draft)
"Judging the Moore County Goings/Goyens/Goings family, 1794-1917," Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line (BackinTyme Publishing(April 2010) PUBLISHED! I have a meeting with a former US Board of Education member and some Cherokee tribal members on the significance of this book in Native American history. It is time to correct Texas history and add another Native American hero to US and Texas history books.
Cyndie Goins Hoelscher, speaker and author of the essay “Judging the Moore County Goings,Goyens,Goins Family” in Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line, defines her mission as an attempt to get multi-ethnic contributions into US history books. Our history books are imbalanced as they focus mostly on Britain’s colonization efforts beginning with Roanoake and the Lost Colony, while Free Persons of Color, the Spanish and the Portuguese contributions to American history are sadly neglected. Hoelscher is a fifth generation great-grand-niece of William Goyens, Jr.
www.amazon.com/Carolina-Genesis-Beyond-Color-Line/dp/093947932X/ref=sr_1_1