Author Archives: lynnhesse

Last weekend in South Carolina one of the more thought-provoking questions for the panel members at the Mystery in The Midlands surrounded the topic of whether the protagonist must be likeable. Underlying this question there was a presumption of the mainstream moral code of right and wrong being part of a good guy’s persona. MostContinue reading “Anti-Heroes Must Be Interesting”

One of my characters, the forger, in my soon-to-be-sent-out manuscript about an Atlanta art heist lives in Cabbagetown. During a research babbling session with my husband, he shares a photo of The Fiddler by Steve Seaberg and Esther Lefever created around 1986 on the CSX Railroad Wall on Wylie Street at the Krog Street viaduct.Continue reading “Cabbagetown Wall Murals – Twelve Original Family Members Left”

Photo of Ofir Nahari- famous clown performer My cell phone won’t send the photos I took yesterday for my weekly blog. The page won’t open in the lynnhesse.word.press.com for me to add the blog or the photo. Patience to understand the digital world escapes me. It is hard enough to understand people. My social media rep.Continue reading “When Nothing Works”

  I write seven days a week with an undetermined day off to celebrate, mourn a rejection email, or regroup after I learn the critique group doesn’t like my anti-hero protagonist. I grab a cup of coffee and begin. I prefer this creating of the characters, plot, and scenes, to refining them at the endContinue reading “Delving Into Deep Waters”

The Music Teacher by Barbara Hall “Inspiration is divine. For everything else there are teachers.” –St. Cecelia, Patron Saint of Musicians Author Barbara Hall created Judging Amy, a successful television series from 1999-2005. Tyne Daly played Amy’s mother in a Hartford, Connecticut setting. I was a fan of the stories involving independent women dealing withContinue reading “The Music Teacher by Barbara Hall”

https://www.wabe.org/press-releases/denis-ohayer-retire-host-wabes-morning-edition-june-29/ I need to make a positive comment about the news and give credit where it is due. I compliment, Denis O’Hayer, a white, middle-class man who is known for his fair coverage of the news and his mentorship of others. I hope his professional standards will be carried forward by his colleagues. He willContinue reading “NPR’s Morning Edition, Denis O’Hayer Retires”

As a Scottish descendent and mother I must stand with the immigrants. Are we afraid of criminals entering our borders, or those innocent children who will grow up, work hard, and prosper in our country? Are we fearful our American-born children can’t compete, or adapt in this fast-paced world where more and more education isContinue reading “Mother and Child”

A Time To Talk – Poem by Robert Frost When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is aContinue reading “Friendship”

and grit   With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, I feel petty to bring up one of my pet peeves, but here goes. I hate to lie on my yoga mat preparing to namaste and see dirt and grit on the floor. Dean takes his shoes off and still tracks on theContinue reading “Pet Peeves”

I wrote this last year  as a guest blogger for Killer Nashville.. It appeared on July 11, 2017.  My job is writing, but I am a member of three community performance troupes involving storytelling, movement, and singing. My improvisation skills, stage experience, and playwriting enrich my fiction. Here is the Cliff Note version for non-actors orContinue reading “How Can Theater Training and Storytelling Improve Your Fiction?”