Tag: human
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Mothers, Hope, and the words, “I’m sorry…”
The hardest thing about being a mother is that you never feel as though you’ve done enough. So many nights I go to bed wondering, pondering, construing and often, I am sure, miscontruing, how I might have done better at something for or with my one of my children. It’s particularly hard when you witness…
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Fodder for Our Writing…
I attended a Christmas brunch this past weekend. It was wonderful. These kinds of events challenge me. With so many in attendance, over 100, the threat of emotional overwhelm looms large.
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Questions
Every novel seeks to answer a question. The question could arise from the premise, What if______meets_____, to which the plot of your story delivers the answer in showing what ensues when X meets Y. On another level your novel could raise a question that plumbs the depths of human personality and consciousness. Why is it…
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The Writer and Human Tragedy
How does the writer respond in the face of human tragedy such as with the recent Utah Mining Disaster? Or in the aftermath of the human devastation left by Hurricane Katrina? Memories of that fateful day of September 11th, 2001 still loom over us. What do we do? What can we as artists faithful to…