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Book progress and Pandora
My last posts have been heavy. Good grief, how can anybody keep reading this heavy shit? It freaks me out, and I’m the one that’s writing it. So I’m gonna try to write a lighten-up post. Let’s see...
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Daily Prompt: Sweet Sixteen
When this prompt from the generally genially congenial folks at WordPress showed up in my inbox, I got so flustered I didn’t know whether to shit or go blind. Here I am, writing a whole freakin’ novel...
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In the Booth with Ruth - Dina Leah
Reblogged from Dina Leah: story of a teenage runaway: Interview with Ruth Jacobs...you can see I was scared to open up... Dina Leah, a survivor of child abuse and rape, ran away from home at age 16...
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Earth Day, And I Am Alive And Well
Earth Day has always been a challenge for me. Some of you may be old enough to remember the very first Earth Day, April 22, 1970. It was a big deal: there had been an environmental consciousness...
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Where I Live
I live on the other side of the North Toe River, facing the Penland Post Office. The Post Office, built in 1900, is on the National Historic Register. If something isn’t done about it soon, it will...
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A Valuable Resource for Writers
I just had a marvelous and incredibly useful conversation with David Henry Sterry, of The Book Doctors. At first I was skeptical: I mean, here’s a couple (David Sperry and Arielle Eckstrut) who make...
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Dina Leah is Alive and Well
Some of you may know that I am writing a book. It’s a memoir that chronicles a seven-month period in my life, when I ran away from home and never went back. It’s pretty gruesome in some places, and...
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NaNo-crastination
Oh, how I wish I was as excited about writing my NaNoWriMo novel as I am about every new blog post I write. I have my characters. I have my plot. I have my story arc (I think). So what’s the...
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Your Writing Sucks!
It glared at me, scrawled in blood-red pencil, across the title page of my Master’s Thesis proposal. My first impulse was to tear the damn thing up and stuff it in the nearest dumpster. My writing...
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Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?
Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide? http://go.ted.com/NNPduw Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and many other wonderful novels and stories, is one of my major writing heroes. She has the magic....
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