Category: Musings
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Writing, The Enemy of Good, and ‘Goldilocks’…
What draws us to write is often comprises that which presents our greatest challenge when writing a story, or novel. The psychic and emotional wounds that compel us to write present the greatest, and yet oftentimes, most invisible obstacles we encounter throughout the process of crafting and refining our stories for public consumption. So what…
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Last Edits, My Personal Best, and Being Present…
The past two weeks have been a blur. I’m in the last stages of editing my novel, The House, that is due out later this year, and times have been quite interesting. It’s funny what happens when you reach a point of having to let go of a book and “put it out there” so…
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Dear John, A Daughter’s Wish and Moments of Awakening…
My daughter recently stated that she hopes that my husband and I live to a ripe old age and that we die together, much like Noah and Allie in the movie based on The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks. My daughter had just finished reading Spark’s novel, now a movie, Dear John. That’s the great thing…