Tag: story
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Commitment, The Number 8, and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity…
A novel, the first draft of which I wrote 8 years ago, has come together. Wow! It hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m so excited and obsessed with this revision, like with none other. It’s such a wonderful feeling to have something that you’ve been holding, and for such a long time, on…
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Of Borderlands, Willingness and Shifts in Consciousness…
Leaving the world as it is, and entering the border between the world as it was, and presently exists in the newly leveraged chaos of change requires courage and faith. It also asks for willingness to acknowledge that one has entered the unknown. Like our protagonists, each time we venture to write a new story…
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Of Life, Physicality and Stories…
Much of the ability to write compelling fiction comes from the willingness to sink one’s teeth into the substance of life, or that, which flows out of life. Conversations, kind smiles, tilts of the head can reveal joy, simmering sadness, or the ache of a heart playing upon a crafted smile. These are the human…
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Stories, Technology, and Loving Husbands…
For Christmas my husband gave me the Mac Version of Dictate. Data is a program that allows you to type on your computer through voice activation. In short, you speak into the receiver and the computer types what you say. He tells me that the program has to become familiar with our voice, which requires…
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Why I Write…And When I Don’t…
I think the hardest thing about writing is staying with it. Yep, staying with it. The words, the phrases, the sentences, the paragraphs. It’s all in there–the writing. [More…] But to write you have to stay with it from the single letter to the period at the end of the sentence that concludes the last…
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The Holidays and Traveling Slowly…
Words for opening of the next scene came to me as I lay in bed. Fearful that i might lose them, I turned on the lamp beside my bed and wrote them by hand.