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January 22, 2024
Writing past the difficult stuff!
Sometimes I get stuck in feeling I must complete something I’m working on. Or must make a scene into a story rather than just letting myself have fun with the writing. I get too bogged down in the heavy stuff of being a writer. I’ve discovered that to get unstuck, I need to push aside …
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January 15, 2024
Finding my way as a writer through keeping journals!
I continue to learn from the journals I kept almost 40 years ago. In this excerpt, I’m beginning to know consciously what it’s like to be haunted by stories and or characters and or situations. So much wants to be written and clamors for attention. But I don’t have the time. Can I pull it …
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January 8, 2024
A writer’s lessons from keeping a diary
I’ve been rereading journals I wrote almost 40 years ago that still have relevance. I had attended a writing workshop at Wellspring, a former retreat center in Philo, CA. The property had the Navarro River passing through it, as well as several rustic but delightful cabins for guests. For me, the focus on writing was …
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January 1, 2024
Can creativity help us to embrace death?
My interest in fairy tales has been revived from reading my journals from forty years ago. At that time, I was investigating the art fairy tale. The Grimm’s fairy tales grew out of the oral tradition, but ones that Hans Christian Andersen and others wrote are part of the art fairy tale genre. I was …
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December 18, 2023
I’m delighted to host author Michael Bourne on my blog today. He reveals the journey he took to writing his first novel. Join him!
Michael Bourne is the author of Blithedale Canyon, published by Regal House in 2022. He is a long-time contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine, and he has written for the New York Times, the Globe & Mail, The Economist, Literary Hub, and Salon. His fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines …
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December 11, 2023
What’s in a fictional character’s name?
I was having dinner with friends the other night that had read my novel Fling! They wanted to know how I came up with the main characters’ names—Heather, Bubbles and Feather. When I tried to pinpoint the moment when the names tumbled onto the page, I couldn’t. Working backwards, I realized that all three generations …
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December 4, 2023
Help me to love graphic novels!
I wish I could get excited about graphic novels. I looked at Maus many years ago and tried to get into it. I couldn’t. I didn’t like having prefab images put my own imagination on hold. I didn’t like the lack of complexity that I enjoy so much in a literary novel (no graphics). It …
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November 27, 2023
Does blogging overexpose 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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November 20, 2023
Welcome to Guest Author Evonne Marzouk, whose novel THE PROPHETESS reveals how the main character unveils her visionary self!
Meet Evonne Marzouk, today’s guest author: Evonne Marzouk is an inspirational public speaker and author of The Prophetess. Her work has also been published in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Jewish News Syndicate, The Wisdom Daily, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, RitualWell and many other publications. She recently co-authored a chapter on “The Heroine’s Journey” in the book Jewish …
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November 13, 2023
How are writers thieves?
When I picked up Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew she was considered one of France’s most important literary figures, but The Lover was the first work of hers that I had read. The back cover claims that The Lover is “an exquisite jewel of a novel,” but it’s …
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