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About Barri BryanI began my writing career relatively late in life. I didn't start to write seriously until after I had marked the milestone of my sixty-fifth birthday. I was soon to discover that because I was over sixty, a few individuals assumed that I was sliding into illness, impotence and immobility. I confronted those beliefs and disregarded those assumptions. That was almost twenty years ago. Beginning a new career at such an august age taught me some valuable lessons. I learned to be tenacious. That’s another word for stubborn. I discovered that one grows old, not by living, but by losing interest in living. I have become skilled at coping with occasionally being spoken to as if I were somewhere between three and thirteen or being viewed as an asexual creature. I can bear with those who, for all their knowledge, are bereft of wisdom. I have learned not to let negative reviews and comments about your work get you down. My first experience with a book review was horrendous! Remember, dear reader, nothing is more subjective than reviewing and judging a work of fiction. Granted, I maybe a little out of step at times. That’s okay. I have found my writing voice. I write what I know and have lived. My greatest discovery is that for me, it is better to fail striving for the magnificent than to succeed in achieving the mediocre. Links to website and blogs : http://barribryan.com/books.php http://barribryan.com/blog/
Barri Bryan's Books
 A CORE CURRICULUM FOR CREATIVE WRITING by Barri Bryan This series of lessons is designed to help writers improve their writing by writing. It is predicated on the belief that learning to write well is not about reading, reciting and remembering; it is about comprehension, perception, and recognition. The aim is threefold: to help writers understand the importance of purpose, to perceive writing as a process, and to recognize the underlying principles that govern that process.
Review: "This is not a book to simply read straight-through. This is to be used
as a text book. Creative writers should keep this as a guide to refer
to on a regular basis. Creative writers will benefit from this guide."
- Reviewed by: Stephanie Rollins for ReviewYourBook.com
WHISKY SHOTS VOLUME 11 by Billie Houston (Barri Bryan) Clytie's Pond Clytie's Pond is a sylvan glade, a pastoral paradise hidden behind a thick mass of tangled undergrowth. By the time Tom Sullivan learns its dark secret, it's too late... Pandora's Box Pandora Penholt takes one look at Chance Chastain and falls madly in Love. When she conspires with Sister Fate Favors, a paranormal psychic with a passing ability to play hunches and a willingness to capitalize on the folly of her fellow human beings, the results are less than spectacular. The Homecoming Dance Is love always sweeter the second time around? Susan Martin is about to find out.
BRUSH COUNTRY by Barri Bryan Brush Country is a collection of poems that vary greatly in style, tone, length, and content. Their unity is in the setting. Each poem is about some person, place or event that has transpired or been inspired by the Brush Country of Central Texas. Each poem has its own ambiance and its own rhythm. Whether rugged and rough hewn as the tangled underbrush that grows in stubborn profusion beneath the stately oaks and scrubby mesquites or as finely wrought as the fragile flowers that bloom in shady glades and hidden places, these poems reflect the unique environment, the ambiguous nature and the paradoxical people who inhabit this distinctive and unusual little corner of the world.
Review:  EPPIE Finalist, Poetry
 WHAT WILL SUFFICE by Barri Bryan
Daylight couldn't shape it,
Amorphous, then invisible
My day was rent with discontent
2007 EPPIE winner for best poetry collection
CHAPTER AND VERSE by Barri Bryan Chapter and Verse
Love unrequited? I've known that state.
Passion departed? I've walked that road.
Promises shattered? My tragedy. 
2005 EPPIE winner for best poetry collection  LOVE WILL FIND A WAY by Barri Bryan In the charged silence of the room, her husband’s words erupt like an explosion. “I want a divorce.” Emily Franklin’s twenty-five year marriage is over. With renewed strength and courage she didn’t know she possessed, Emily sets out to rebuild her life. Enter The Reverend Dennis Morrison, a compassionate man who awakens in Emily quiet but compelling emotions. Then abruptly and unexpectedly, her chastened and repenting ex-husband reappears, asking her forgiveness and pleading for her to take him back.
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