Category: Articles and Essays
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A Book to Read: Angels and Demons
Last night I approached the final pages of Dan Brown’s novel, “Angels and Demons“. And boy, does it have a twist. I didn’t even see it coming. That’s a lot for a psychotherapist, where suspicion mixed with a little of cynicism, comes with the trade.
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What Story Are You Telling?: Everything is Autobiograpical
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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Meaning and the Artist’s Time
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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2009 Orange Prize novel offered as a Free Download
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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Angel or Demon: Dan Brown and “The Lost Symbol” of His Writing
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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New York Times Best Selling Author Tells the Truth
A few years ago I made a promise to my writer friends that if I ever had a novel hit the top twenty of the New York Times mass market bestseller list that I would share all the information I was given about the book so writers could really see what it takes to get…
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A Thick State of Denial
While training to become a psychotherapist I was taught that the thicker a client’s state of denial, the deeper the wound that lay beneath it. As I look at the ways various sectors of the economy are continuing to spend money like there’s no tomorrow, never mind the economic depression that lay upon us today,…