DENISE CASSINO - TURNING A PHRASE
Favorite books:

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Bleeding Heart by Marilyn French
Family Pictures by Sue Miller
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Stand by Stephen King
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Favorite movies:

Gone with the Wind
The Great Santini
Cannery Row
The Fortune
The Deer Hunter
National Lampoon's Vacation
Dirty Harry
When Harry Met Sally

Favorite Music:

The Beatles
Frank Sinatra
George Strait
Carly Simon
Les McCann
Denise is the Senior Editor of Long Story Short, an ezine for writers as well as Director of Production and Curriculum for the Long Story Short School of Writing. She is also Editor/Publisher for the Long Story Short Publishing Company.  Denise is a professional website designer and web marketer specializing in  websites for authors and book marketing - check out her Wizardly Web Designs


What inspires a writer?  What makes those words pour onto the page?


Why do I write? I write because I love words. I love our language. I love the amazing images created from mere black ink on white paper. I have loved words all of my life. I started reading avidly as a child utterly consumed by worlds and characters I would never see or meet but finally grew to know intimately. I fell in love with Rhett Butler. I discovered the Hidden Staircase with Nancy Drew and George and Bess. I am fascinated and awed by writers like Pat Conroy whose words make you smell the sea salt and taste the boiling shrimp; writers who can evoke images and emotions so profound and powerful that they linger in one’s mind forever. I love the characters that tug at you to return to them, to pick up the book and enter their realm again. I love that I yearn for those characters and places long after we’ve parted, as though homesick, wishing I could have just a few more moments with them. I love all that I learn from reading, the historical characters and events that I now know so well. I want to be able to give back what I have loved getting from others throughout my life – the joys of reading and writing.
My husband, Lon. 
Our front yard. Pure Inspiration and why we love winter.                      My hiking pals, Bo & Shania
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Words wander aimlessly across the page until they get to the point.
----Denise Cassino
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"Life has a way of working out."  - Denise Cassino
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