Tag: The House
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How do you know you’re a writer?
How do you know you’re a writer? I struggle with this question while readying my second book, a novel, The House, for publication in fall 2009. I graduated my MFA program–Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington–in July 2006. The afternoon following commencement I was fortunate enough to open my e-mail and see a publisher’s request to…
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Fear of Intimacy…
I recently commented on a blog post where the question was: How does a good relationship feel? In short I said that how one feels in a good relationship is predicated on the nature and quality of one’s previous relationships and one’s perspective as shaped by those experiences. You can read my entire comment at…
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My Characters’ Obsessions
I’m noticing is that as I work on my 9th novel–I’ve written 8–all unpublished–my published work is a collection of short stories, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident“—that I’m identifying and honing in on my major character’s obsession. This is a new discovery for me. I realize in revising and editing my recent, and 8th…

