Looking Backward

This week I've been thinking about the power of the past. No, not about the purported good old days, and no, not about wallowing in memories. The storehouse of a writer's experience shapes his plots and protagonists in powerful ways.

In Old Homes, I look at how my characters have taken over houses where I used to live. In My Wife is the Time Traveler's Wife, I consider an author's travel into other times and places to draw on his/her rich memory bank of emotions.
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Today, we are remembering 9/1...