But the porch had a fresh white coat of paint, and someone had planted something small and green in front of the house. It was, she thought, a house where folks tried, where they really tried. Nor can't no black man own land in Texas, Lovey protested. I sure can, he said. This place is called Moser Valley yonders, the Trinity river. The Mosers owned the plantation, and when they freed their slaves, they gave them this land
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:14
It's once again, I'm a fan. I'm listening. This is such a treat. Rarely do we get great authors coming on here and giving us their time and their voice and their words. It's so special. I just want to thank you
Phyllis Allen
@MamaMinnie · 1:16
And being able to share some of the things that I have written helped me get back into the flow of listening and hearing what my characters want to tell me. Because your characters come to you and they tell you their stories, and you have to be in a place that you can hear that story. So thank you for giving us that plates
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:51
And then I got a chance to write a book for a therapist. I'm going to link it here because I read it into swell. I read the whole book into swell. I just kept on replying to myself, that's another way to read a whole book into swell and have an audiobook. But I took a writing class a couple of weeks ago again, and I was like, God, I love writing. So if you start, I'll start. Okay. Pinky promised
Phyllis Allen
@MamaMinnie · 2:08
I am certainly going to start reading. I have work that I have done in the past, so I am enjoying reading my work into swale just to get an idea. And it's making me feel like I still have something to say. Because for a long time I felt like I had nothing to say for my genre. That I was writing at the time had morphed into something called urban lit and it was not my voice and I had no characters who spoke in that voice