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Lauren B. Davis
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Students and readers often ask me how I keep my creative fires stoked, so here’s a list I’m working on. They are primarily for writers, but would work for anyone seeking to be more creative. I’ll post more as they occur to me:
Listen to new-to-you music. Close your eyes, lean back and dream. Write down what you discover.
Take a news story and write a monol... read more »
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Our Daily Bread
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The Radiant city
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The Stubborn Season
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An Unrehearsed Desire
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Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives
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Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD made vivid the joys and sorrows of one small town riven into many insular communities, and so took unsparing stock of a nation's character. In OUR DAILY BREAD, Lauren Davis has brought that same clear-eyed genero...
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“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?”
― Lauren B. Davis
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“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”
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― Will Blythe
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Hi Katherine -- nice to hear from you again. I hope all the changes in your personal life have been good ones!Katherine wrote: "Hi Lauren- Just dropping in since it's been nearly a year since I've spoken to you. My apologies! So much has happened to my personal life in that amount of time. I still have Radiant City on my..."
Hi Lauren- Just dropping in since it's been nearly a year since I've spoken to you. My apologies! So much has happened to my personal life in that amount of time. I still have Radiant City on my shelf of To-Reads and I promise I will get to it this summer. I haven't picked up a book (except my own!) since last Fall. That's so out of character for me. So, promises, promises!
Thanks for the friend request, Joy. I'm so glad you like the website, as well. I look forward to getting to know you and your literary tastes better! L.
Joy wrote: "Lauren,
I'm so happy to be your friend! Your website is great too. :)"
That's extremely kind, Katherine. I haven't ordered yours yet as I have several books I must review first, but I WILL, I promise.
Hi Lauren- I kind of went out of order from the "Main Pay it Forward" list, but I ordered a copy of Radiant City today. Can't wait to read it!
Lauren B. wrote: "Katherine wrote: "Hi Lauren. Just wanted to say that I love your Author photo. Beautiful and great lighting- dramatic"Thanks, Katherine... yours is lovely as well. Someone once asked if I wasn..."
Wow. Do I talk too much? haha. Yes, my fiance is a photographer.
I've had people ask that too: "Aren't you afraid people will recognize you?"
And i replied: "But no one reads anymore! Who's going to stalk some author? What's so fascinating about that?"
But I actually have had quite a few people recognize me from a newspaper article. People remember my face for some reason. Then again... someone stopped me and was adamant that my name was Josephine. Even when I told them I was not "Josephine" whom they went to school with ten years ago, they didn't believe me.
I had to whip out my photo ID. haha.
Katherine wrote: "Hi Lauren. Just wanted to say that I love your Author photo. Beautiful and great lighting- dramatic"Thanks, Katherine... yours is lovely as well. Someone once asked if I wasn't afraid I'd get a stalker due to that photo. I replied, no one's ever recognized me from that photo! It's amazing what a few hours of professional hair, make-up and lighting, as well as a great photographer can do, isn't it? But I think you know that, since your fiance is a photographer, yes?
