Tag: Cross Creek

• DESSIE SMITH PRESCOTT – A WOMAN FOR THE AGES

  

  By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social As a freelance writer, I’ve been fortunate enough to write about some interesting events and people. In a few instances, I’ve even had the privilege of interviewing a handful of famous or infamous folks. Dessie Smith Prescott could be categorized as both famous and infamous, and the interview with her…

  P. C. Zick

  June 24, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, interview, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, travel, wildlife

  Cross Creek, Dessie Smith Prescott, Florida fiction, Florida nonfiction, Florida Women’s Hall of Fame, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, north Florida, rural Florida, St. Johns River, women pioneers

• THE HUMAN HEIRS OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS

  

  By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social Last week, I wrote about the inspiration of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on my life and career. Here is the essay “Human Heirs” that I wrote for the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Essay Contest in 2001 as I left my decades-long teaching career to venture into freelance writing. The essay won first…

  P. C. Zick

  June 17, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, historical fiction, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  Cross Creek, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Florida environment, Florida fiction, Florida nonfiction, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ross Allen, South Moon Under, The Yearling

• A WRITER’S LIFE AND INSPIRATION

  

  By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling and Cross Creek and many more books, remains an inspiration to me even though she died a year before I was born. Still, her journey as author and woman who left the north for the south provided a road map for me. I…

  P. C. Zick

  June 10, 2025

  historical fiction, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  Cross Creek, Florida fiction, Florida natural world, inspirational stories, kayaking, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling, writer’s life, writing

• Writing Again with Pleasure

  Patience. Faith. And a little bit of nature. A few weeks ago, I admitted I hadn’t been writing. It must have done the trick because soon after I sat myself down in the chair, bed, couch, recliner–wherever it felt right–and picked back up with Love on Track. Some bits of inspiration have come from enjoying…

  P. C. Zick

  February 11, 2019

  Ramblings of a Writer

  Cross Creek, Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, north Florida, P.C. Zick, South Moon Under, The Yearling, writer’s life, writing

• Less is More – The Writing Oxymoron

  “When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.” —Stephen King, November 1973 By P.C. Zick – @PCZick A…

  P. C. Zick

  May 1, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace, Writing Tips

  Cross Creek, editing, Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, writers, writing

• Cross Creek Sojourn

  By P.C. Zick – @PCZick Cross Creek was immortalized in the movie of the same name  in 1983. The small village exists on the banks of Orange Lake in North Florida amid the hanging Spanish moss and spirits of those who once called the Creek their home. Two women whose photographs grace a hallway in…

  P. C. Zick

  April 24, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace

  Cross Creek, Dessie Smith Prescott, environment, Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize, writers