Category: Musings
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Of Identity, Persona and Naïveté…
Like Adam and Eve whom God warned not to eat of the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, the protagonists of our stories often encounter box they are to leave closed, lovers whose lips theirs are not to touch, forests in which they are encouraged not to wander alone, galas and balls that…
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The Quiet That Descended…
A quiet descended somewhere between the last hours of Christmas Eve and 12 am Christmas morn. My husband with two of our children was away at midnight Mass. Our middle had been home with me preparing the early Christmas meal. We always eat our Christmas meal in the wee hours of the morn after the…
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Stories, Technology, and Loving Husbands…
For Christmas my husband gave me the Mac Version of Dictate. Data is a program that allows you to type on your computer through voice activation. In short, you speak into the receiver and the computer types what you say. He tells me that the program has to become familiar with our voice, which requires…
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Sick With a Cold…
I’ve been sick the last five days with a cold. It’s been hard to write. And so I haven’t. I also feel sicker, worse, for not writing. It’s always difficult for me to give up my writing, even when it’s temporary and I know I need to rest.
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Why I Write…And When I Don’t…
I think the hardest thing about writing is staying with it. Yep, staying with it. The words, the phrases, the sentences, the paragraphs. It’s all in there–the writing. [More…] But to write you have to stay with it from the single letter to the period at the end of the sentence that concludes the last…
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Prayers Enroute to the Pot of Gold…
I find it hard when praying to ask for blessings regarding my writing. perhaps that’s because I feel already gifted in that I am able to write, that my ability to craft stories and that I am doing so is such a wonderful gift.
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Persona, Compassion and Bravado…
I recently read an article on writing that suggested writers ask ourselves, “Why have I chosen to write this novel at this time in my life?” This novel at this time. An interesting question.