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I’m Regina Shepherd (maiden name), Hill, Riddle - McIntosh… but I’ve only had things published under my names – Regina Hill and Regina Riddle and Regina McIntosh, who I am currently. I enjoy writing and hope to write something that shares my heartfelt joy in the Lord. I love God above all else and want to please Him above all else. I hope to write more Christian original poetry and have other ideas which include the possibility of writing something surrounding my home, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina and all the Appalachia that I love.

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Most recently, my poems appear each month in Blue Ridge Christian News, a local paper for Christians and I am currently working on devotionals that will possibly be published in early 2024.

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Blog Posted by Regina Mcintosh: 1/29/2025 3:57:00 AM

Everything a person writes isn’t necessarily something they have experienced. I recently wrote a poem that I intended to discourage abortion and someone got the idea that I’d had an abortion – nothing could be farther from the truth. I am so against abortion and I can’t imagine the guilt someone might feel if they had an abortion. At any rate, I haven’t actually had the experience of having an abortion, yet I wrote a poem about abortion. If everything we write is something that comes from our own experiences – that might mean that writers like Steven King are truly in serious trouble. No. Not everything I write is about me! I write some things about me, but the abortion poem was definitely not about me! I hope that we can read each others poetry without assuming that every line written is biographical! God bless you all and Have a Happy February.

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David
Crandall

Date: 1/30/2025 12:34:00 PM

That's a good idea to add a disclaimer. I write a lot of fictional poems in first person that people sometimes think are real. It's confusing, because a lot of my poems are mostly fictional, but contain pieces that are sometimes literally, and sometimes, figuratively factual - and sometimes, nothing is factual.

Regina Mcintosh
Date: 1/30/2025 12:38:00 PM

Absolutely. I'll remember that from now on.

Charlotte
Puddifoot

Date: 1/30/2025 7:53:00 AM

i have the opposite problem - people tend to assume my poems are fictional when 90% are factual

Regina Mcintosh
Date: 1/30/2025 1:00:00 PM

Probably why I enjoy your writing so much.

Unseeking
Seeker

Date: 1/30/2025 6:05:00 AM

A common error but then we do tend to write about how life touches us intimately, moment to moment, so you can just add fictional or a similar word as a footnote somewhere.

Regina Mcintosh
Date: 1/30/2025 12:59:00 PM

Yes. Thanks

Suzette
Richards

Date: 1/29/2025 10:12:00 PM

I got in the habit of adding Persona or Satire at the top of a poem that might otherwise be incorrectly identified. It mostly helps, but I still get the odd one that doesn't get it, especially if it is on a sensitive subject.

Tom Woody
Date: 2/17/2025 3:42:00 PM

Bloody odd!

Regina Mcintosh
Date: 1/30/2025 1:00:00 PM

Good idea. Thank you.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 1/29/2025 1:04:00 PM

Like Tom says below, if it is something really outside your realm of experience, disclaimers at the top are a great way to avoid having people think it's about you. Sometimes I will write from male perspective and wonder if people who don't know me are thinking I am actually a man. haha. Yeah, maybe only 10 percent of what I write is truly about myself personally, but most of what I write is general truth for all.

Regina Mcintosh
Date: 1/29/2025 1:11:00 PM

I added the disclaimer. Thank you tons. I hadn't thought of doing that.

Tom
Woody

Date: 1/29/2025 10:47:00 AM

I noticed Silent One will sometimes add a disclaimer to his so that his readers won't be confused. Nevertheless, some still are, assuming it's bio based. I get it too sometimes I think we all do. I wouldn't be too concerned

Regina Mcintosh
Date: 1/29/2025 1:11:00 PM

Thank you. I added a note at the top of the poem now. I hope readers will see and realize that it isn't actually me I'm talking about. You're right. I shouldn't let it bother me. It's just that I really hate abortion!

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