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Mar.12.2012
Heroism is defined by more than superheroic strength and a dual identity. Did you know that midwife Robin Lim successfully delivered thousands of babies through her Indonesian birthing clinics? That Stanford University graduate Caroline Paul was among the first dozen women to join the San Francisco...
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Feb.26.2012
Two weeks ago, we asked Red Roomers blog about the time they first wanted to become writers. We wanted to know if there was there a "flash" moment when they just knew, or has it always been true?
A few entries stood out:
Member Lisa Jensen has always wanted to write, and her memories of how she'...
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Feb.21.2012
Heroism is defined by more than superheroic strength and a dual identity. Did you know that midwife Robin Lim successfully delivered thousands of babies through her Indonesian birthing clinics? That Stanford University graduate Caroline Paul was among the first dozen women to join the San Francisco...
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Feb.20.2012
“I think you’ll be a writer and a teacher, when you grow up,” said my grandmother, when I was about eleven. To this day, I do not know what made her see that in me. Still, when I got divorced, it made perfect sense – as a teacher and weekend scribbler – to scrap my husband’s...
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Feb.19.2012
When I started to relate to my characters as if I hadn’t created them myself out of thin air, I knew that I had a bit of a talent and should probably write more.
I wrote my very first piece when I was 10. It was a poem describing a fictional (yet very real) poor family. Though I grew up...
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Feb.07.2012
This week, please blog about the time you first wanted to become a writer. Was there a "flash" moment when you just knew, or has it always been true? Please tag your post first time writer blog.
Jane Smiley said, “One of the things I found so congenial about my group in Iowa was that they were...
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Jan.31.2012
(Updated Feb. 7, 2012)
Did you know that scientists at Cornell University invented a time cloak— they hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second—and tinkered with the speed of light? A common theme in science fiction and comics, time travel has been explored in wide-ranging works of fiction...
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Jan.26.2012
Time is a mysterious dimension to explore. When you’re young there seems to be so much of it, but you don’t yet know that it’s beyond your control.
From 1965 to 1995 (during Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHWBush, and Clinton presidencies) I worked on a novel about growing up in Midwest...
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Jan.17.2012
It didn't start with Romeo and Juliet, although sometimes it seems like it did. Stories of doomed love go back to the one of the earliest known pieces of written fiction, The Epic of Gilgamesh. However you interpret the details of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's relationship, the depth of the heroes'...
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Jan.10.2012
(Please go here to read about Red Room's "when did you first know you had to be a writer" blog topic.)
Did you know that scientists at Cornell University invented a time cloak— they hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second—and tinkered with the speed of light? A common theme in science fiction...
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