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Apr.22.2013
When we think of the war years our focus tends to be with the horrors of wartime battles, and it is easy to forget that for ordinary people in occupied lands other crimes still happened.
In Paris, under occupation, the French people remained strong. Their ability to keep quiet and forget...
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Apr.14.2013
If you are between the ages of 18 to 30, you might have been a part of this. Would you have written about it then? What would you write about it now?
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Nov.07.2012
Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein YA
I have the very distinct impression I may be coming a little late to the Code Name Verity fan club, it's that good. Nonetheless, I can't not write about this story either. It's that riveting. It's historical fiction solidly based in history. It's storyline is...
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Jan.04.2012
Yes, that's me!
I used to live here on this blog. Then I got stupidly overworked and now I am RESISTING EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE!!
I highly recommend this strategy of resistance because it creates all kinds of guilty feelings and even MORE resistance. Yay!! What could be better than that?...
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Sep.29.2011
Don’t writers hate routine? Not if they want to get serious writing done. After time away, removed from the U.S., the internet, social media and my daily routine, I’m back into it. There’s a lot to be said for getting completely away. But getting back, getting over jetlag and catching up on...
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May.07.2011
The following was a back-and-forth between me and Diana Stout, writer and blogger extraordinaire. (She writes really well, and her blog is very interesting. Go there.) The topic at hand was: Should writers blog? Writers write, one thought process goes, so writers should blog. But, at the...
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May.01.2011
Photo: Book cover, from Steven Pressfield's website--http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/
Brilliant and succinct meditation on the artist, the artist's calling, the philosophy of being a writer, and it does all of these things in ways that I would never have thought...
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Apr.28.2011
That's the time that I have successfully gotten up this week, every weekday, and written more for The Gravediggers for an hour before I showered, ate, and went to work. In that time, I've managed to finish three chapters--drafts, edits, etc.--and I've been on-time to work each day as an added...
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Apr.24.2011
Well, it's been a little while. Truth is, I haven't been here because I've been writing! (And watching baseball games.) I'm two or three chapters into THE GRAVEDIGGERS, and things are going well. It's exciting and a little bit freaky. Its success has seeped into a few other things in my...
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Mar.08.2011
March 8
Résistance
Resisting tough love is approaching long run action with short run thinking. I hate to set the toddling babe down lest he fall, but in the end if I do not put him down he and I will both be the worse for it. Whether I see a forest or I...
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