Sweet Adversity: A Southern Writer Finds Stories-and Good-in Everything

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1958533696 ISBN13: 9781958533697 Release Date: May 2024 Publisher: Crippled Beagle Publishing Length: 154 Pages Weight: 0.41 lbs. Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5" Sandra Whitten Plant has always looked around the next bend or over the next hill, occasionally getting snagged on an inconvenient fence or doused in a cold mountain stream. In the adventures of her decades-long writing career, she finds there is always a story to be told, whether affirming, informative or entertaining. She also knows that getting a good story out of a misadventure is sometimes the only comfort, lesson or hope. That curiosity-particularly about life's possibilities and what drives our points of view, actions and reactions-is what courses through this collection of stories (and the accompanying guidance). Thus, you'll find good at the heart of both the fiction and creative nonfiction tales found in Sweet Adversity. Enjoy Plant's account of two child