Tag: fiction
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Radio Show | Deanna Raybourn and ‘Lady Julia Grey’
Novelist, Deanna Raybourn discusses Lady Julia Grey, the heroine of her novels, “Silent in Grave,” “Silent in the Sanctuary,” and “Silent on the Moor“. So tune in.
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Radio Show | Author, Laura Brodie
Author, Laura Brodie, discusses her debut novel, The Widow’s Season. Laura is also the author of Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of VMI. So tune in.
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The Writer and The Temple
—Green my life and remove my sorrows. The picture is stunning. But it was the words underneath that caught my attention.The relationship between global warming and fiction writing may not present as clear.
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Loving Our Characters
American Buddhist nun, Pema Chödrön, writes in “Comfortable with Uncertainty” that, “…When we start to meditate or work with any kind of spiritual discipline, we often think that somehow we’re going to improve [ourselves], which is a subtle kind of aggression against who we are…Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become…
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An Idea for a Story…
I have the idea for a story. It may turn into a novel. For now it opens with, “…The great god Maui, it is said, created the island Maui, by tricking his brothers into thinking he had caught a huge fish. He told them to paddle faster so that he could pull the fish to…
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Our Words Are But Children at Play
Like an old man watching children at play, we need to see through our own seriousness. No matter how seriously the children go about their games, the old man is amused and never for a moment takes them to be real. We can watch our own thoughts and emotions in the same way. Without taking…
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My Love for Things Victorian and Historical
As an author of modern-day Women’s Fiction, I find that reading Historical Fiction and of the Victorian era gives me room to breathe and imagine, or re-imagine, if you will, new twists on possibilities for plots in the modern era. The modern era in wiping away the constrictions and hesitancies of the individual, and family…