Tag: reading
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Why Reading is Important
I’ve received several comments on my blogs concerning Dan Brown. They were all positive, the readers saying they had added Angels and Demons to their reading list. I wrote to one person in response to their comment that: I find that reading a work that displays the element of craft I am trying to incorporate…
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The Roots of My Writing Life
My fourth grader has a science project due May 4th and a Mission Project due May 18th. My high school sophomore’s paper on comparing and contrasting the Holocaust to The Rwandan genocide is due after Easter Break. And then my college senior is graduating May 22 ,2009. The Baccalaureate service takes place the night before,…
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…
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Time Alone-Time With Others: Finding Balance as a Writer
A writer’s most valued commodity is her/his time–and usually alone. It is in those moments alone that we do our greatest work–writing and reading. And yet, the writer must remain engaged with the world–observant, aware, awake, and alert to what makes people tick–the universal modus operandi that drive the human heart and soul. How do…
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What are You Reading?
Reading to an author is like air to a humans, or water to fish. Without it–reading–we run dry.