Writers Tricks of the Trade Issue 6, Volume 6 | Page 9

Morgan’s Corner
Morgan’s Corner

MORGAN ST. JAMES, EDITOR

Morgan St. James, Editor

Editor

THE YEAR IS ALMOST OVER AND WHAT
A YEAR IT HAS BEEN
With a little over six weeks left in 2016, as I looked back on what a
next page…
year Cont’d
it has been,
I came to many conclusions. This magazine does not
have a political bias in any direction, but you can’t look at 2016
without realizing how much the power of words affected the very core
of what we have believed in. True or not, we have been lambasted
with speeches, publication and commercials that were designed to stir
our citizens into a frenzy. This has been like no presidential campaign
we have witnessed in our lifetimes, and thank goodness it is over.

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As a writer and pseudo journalist, it pained me to see so many
misstatements and information treated as fact. In many ways, that is
the domino effect of our cyber world. In days past, news articles and
claims were vetted, or checked out, before being presented in mass
media as fact. Sadly, we no longer enjoy that. Now anything anyone
wants to say, post or print is viewed by masses of the populace as
irrefutable fact. When proven to be fabricated or false, there is rarely
a high-profile apology or retraction, and those who believed continue
to believe. Journalists of the past who had the integrity to make sure
the facts were there must be turning in their graves.
Many of us write fiction. That is the place for flights of fancy,
circumstances to fit the plots, and characters you love or love to hate.
Want to deal with hackers who manipulate the things they hack? Use
them in a thriller. So often fiction has its roots in actual events, but
fiction is where we can take it over the top. This year fiction found its
way into reality.
This is a magazine by writers and people in the industry for writers.
As all of you readers know, I produce this magazine to help promote
writers and to provide helpful tips an d techniques, resources and
some news that affects our industry. In 2017 we will continue to do so,
and welcome ideas and contributions of articles. I am proud to say
that in 2016 two of my books will have been released—the 4th zany
Silver Sisters mystery, Diamonds in the Dumpster, a funny, feel-good
mystery, and the amazing heartrending, but inspirational true story I
helped Cheryl and Rob Cuccio write—Incest, Murder and a Miracle.

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