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February 3, 2025
What I learned from writing about why I write!
After I recently published a guest post by Suzanne Sherman on my blog, I responded to her challenge to write nonstop for 10 minutes about why I write. What happened for me confirmed her discovery that “writing lets us dig deeper and find out what we really think about something.” Here is my offering, but …
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January 27, 2025
Why Istanbul reminds me of San Francisco?
California, even in January, still has spring-like qualities, though April always makes me a little nervous. All that new green showing itself. Flowers. Plants. Reveling in an ecstasy of self-indulgence. For a Canadian, such excess seems suspect. But California, northern California that is, doesn’t care. It just keeps making these spring-like gestures, warming up one …
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January 20, 2025
Have you written lately? Here’s Suzanne Sherman’s inspiring response!
At a New Year’s Eve party, someone asked if I’m writing lately. I said yes, I’m always writing. The next day, I decided to sit down for 10 minutes to explore the reason for my answer. Writing nonstop for 10 minutes on the topic turned out to be another good example of how writing lets us dig …
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January 13, 2025
Meet 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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January 6, 2025
Riding the creative roller coaster with author Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop!
Rejoice, Mourn, Repeat Riding the creative roller coaster Writing a novel is like riding an emotional roller coaster. So many ups and downs. In the beginning, you’re simply trying to create a world that a reader can enter. That means you need to develop believable characters, be they heros or villains, you need to set …
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January 1, 2025
To blog or not to blog? Is blogging the question?
Full disclosure: I started this blog some time ago so I could create a “writer’s platform” to show agents and potential publishers. But it doesn’t come without a cost, and that is one’s privacy, even though my postings mainly focus on some aspect of reading and writing. The idea of public and private has shifted …
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December 23, 2024
Humbled by revisions!
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 telling! …
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December 16, 2024
Seduced by Morocco!
I can see why the French wanted to occupy Morocco in 1912. And I can also see the remains of that occupation. While the official seizure is over, the French (and others) still dominate. French is spoken as frequently as Arabic. And while officially France may not be in charge any longer, it still has …
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December 10, 2024
What IS the real story?
“The artist must be deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. He must watch only the trend of the inner need and harken to its words alone.” —Kandinsky. Several years ago, I entered a Master’s in Creative Writing program as a poet, but I was equally interested in writing fiction and …
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