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November 12, 2018
Does Art Strip the Writer/Artist Bare?
Working on my soon-to-be-released novel Freefall: A DivineComedy has made me see how art strips the artist bare, leaving him/her fully exposed. This dynamic is true for literary as well as visual artists, perhaps even more so. Writers mine all parts of their psyches in order to explore characters, emotions, themes, thoughts, desires, impulses, and […]
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November 5, 2018
Recreating the Self Through Writing Memoir
I opened the I Ching at random this morning and came up with #38, K’uei / Opposition. The commentary says it is common for two opposites to exist together, needing to find relationship. I realize an opposition is being set up just in the act of writing my memoir Drop Out: my inner writer will be […]
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October 29, 2018
Letting the Imagination Lead
In addition to writing adult fiction and non-fiction, I also create pieces for children. Today, I tried to start a children’s story of a girl sleeping in an elegant dollhouse based on a dream image that has stayed with me. But after a few sentences, I felt extremely critical of what I had written. I […]
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October 22, 2018
Does Blogging Denude the Blogger?
Full disclosure: I started this blog so I would have a “writer’s platform” I could show agents and potential publishers. But it doesn’t come without a cost, and that is one’s privacy. The idea of public and private has shifted. While some people still keep private diaries/journals (myself included), others are blogging their hearts out […]
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October 15, 2018
Thoughts on my novel writing process
The following interview appeared today at the Writers & Authors blog: Tell me about your book/s. My novels all feature sexy, adventuresome, & inspirational women and men, some of them over 60, breaking boundaries! They also all feature at least one visual artist, and art is a major theme in my work. How did you do […]
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October 8, 2018
Revision Hubris
Okay, I’ve been writing for longer than I care to remember, but I still can convince myself (arrogant? yes!) that I don’t need feedback from other writers. This attitude tends to take over when I’ve spent considerable time working on something, as I had with a memoir I’ve written. After all, it’s my story I’m […]
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October 1, 2018
Words as Animals
I recently read the book Words as Eggs by Jungian analyst Russell Lockhart. The idea for the work, and the chapter from which the title comes, originated in one of Lockhart’s dreams. A voice in his dream said “Do you not know that words are eggs, that words carry life, that words give birth?” (92). […]
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September 24, 2018
Bruno Schulz: My New Muse
Bruno Schulz, the Polish writer, has become my new muse. I’ve been reading his first book, The Street of Crocodiles, and I’m fully captivated. His words and images have such energy that they practically levitate above the page: “A tidy thicket of grasses, weeds, and thistles crackled in the fire of the afternoon. The sleeping […]
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September 17, 2018
Making Lemonade: How Writers Transform Rejection #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
A writing friend of mine has papered her bathroom with rejection slips. Viewed in that context, they become less weighty and are put into perspective. As writers, we tend to think of rejections from publishers as negative. But rejections can be gifts in disguise, offering us a way to make lemonade out of lemons. There […]
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Making Lemonade: How Writers Transform Rejection
A writing friend of mine has papered her bathroom with rejection slips. Viewed in that context, they become less weighty and are put into perspective. As writers, we tend to think of rejections from publishers as negative. But rejections can be gifts in disguise, offering us a way to make lemonade out of lemons. There […]
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