What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace any thing, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds […]
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Author and poet, David Mura, says that once we uncover why we are writing, our job becomes easier. I liken his question not so much to answering the why of how I have come to the writing life, rather, what story am I telling.
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Authors, Clarence Mollack and Jarold Imes, will join me in discussing their works, “Verbal Vacancy” (Mollock), and “SOAM I Was Made to Love Her” (Imes) in the anthology, The Soul of a Man, published by Peace in the Storm Press, and due for release in June 2009. So tune in! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/anjuellefloyd/2009/04/25/Author-Clarence-Mollack-contributor-to-The-Soul-of-a-Man www.ourteenvoices.com – Literary hang
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Creators have trouble maintaining meaning. … A creative person is vulnerable to meaning crises, and hence depression, by virtue of our relationship to meaning. Eric Maisel, PhD, in the introduction of his book, the VAN GOGH BLUES, The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression
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A novel that was yesterday shortlisted for the Orange Prize will be made available as a free download for a day. Burnt Shadows is being offered to anyone who wishes to download it by the publisher Bloomsbury. The book by Kamila Shamsie, a Pakistani-born author who now lives in London, concerns Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor
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Dan Brown’s first new novel since The DaVinci Code was announced yesterday. Inevitably, it involves a global cult and a race against time to unlock a secret formula. Details of the plot are likely to remain fiercely guarded until much nearer the publication date of September 15, but intrigue centres on whether Brown’s vast and
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Last Friday I went bike riding with my 10-year-old. It was great. We were by the water. She wobbled a lot, though she never fell. I rode behind her. The path we took is a popular spot for runners and other bikers as well as walkers. There are two small lanes. On one side lay