Category: …the writing life…
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The Writer, Narrative, and Evolution…
Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at every moment it is being created. –Toni Morrison (Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise by Tavis Smiley) These words gripped me the first time I read them. That was over a week ago. In the days since, I have repeated and shared them…
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‘My Name is Khan’, Bollywood, and Writing…
This weekend I saw the movie, “My Name is Khan”. It was a lovely, entertaining and deeply moving experience for both me and my husband. For writers unfamiliar with Bollywood movies, I high recommend beginning to watch them. Though long, they are a wonderful artistic creation to behold. As with any art form, not all…
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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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Publishing Contracts, Motherhood, Dreams, Hopes and Wishes…
I’ve been busy these last few weeks refining and making last changes to the document files for interior and book cover of my novel, “The House”. It’s been an interesting experience bringing this piece of work, “The House” to fruition. My first book, a collection of short stories, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident”, was…