Tag: history
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Protected: Of History, Bloodlines and Memory …
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Writer’s Block, Travel and Encountering Ourselves…
It’s really hard to write. I’m traveling with my youngest. I hated leaving home. And yet I felt stuck. Stuck. Not a good place to be as a writer. And yet it happens. I don’t experience writer’s block, as much as encountering periods wherein it is just hard to write. I lack the stamina to…
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Of Cruise Ships, Planes, Ocean and Sky…
Traveling by ship, or cruising, starts with the point or process of embarkation, going onto the ship and finding our room. Your bags arrive soon after that. And within an hour or so the ship sets sail. Unlike with an airplane, where matters move at a faster pac
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So You Want to Write a Story: How=Story
A story can be seen as answering six essential questions: Who, What, Where, When Why, and How? Who concerns the characters. What defines the current situation, problem or dilemma. Where describes the setting. When is the second part of the setting, time and period in history, either current, or some time in the past, or…
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The Courage to Dance and Write
Writers dance with our characters. The words we write are the music delivering rhythm by which our feet move. The sentences and paragraphs that follow spin a melody, the context and situation wherein we in crafting our stories offer not only a depiction of transformation and change, but also the epiphany and transcendence of our…