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May.06.2010
Time is held in the body. Like all the other markers of our lives. We can't control them: a broken bone, an operation, a sadness. We carry all of these.They stay with us, mapping our history in the very fabric of our make-up. Little and big physical and emotional moments reshape the interior and...
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Feb.01.2010
A mentor of mine, an award winning novelist, told me once that writing makes you fat. She said, "I used to be a size nine but look at me now." Of course, through my adoring eyes, she looked perfect: elegant, wise, full of life and sparkle. Then like most people, I associated writing with...
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Jun.11.2009
I wish you could hear this oud--the way it winds around, spirals up and flutters the high notes. When Marcel Khalife plays Caress, my heart moves forwards, my fingers fill, my stomach warms. I fall into the string of notes, everything shifts out of my head and into the body. I am located. I am in...
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Jan.08.2009
Elizabeth Stark likens the act of writing to an olympian practicing for the big meet, the contest, the personal best. A writer is alone at the keyboard, and the meet itself becomes what..... the agent's response to a query, the publisher's contract you've finally landed? Is it the reviews, the...
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Jan.06.2009
I seldom talk about my writing process even to my closest friends. But what the hell. I am inspired by Elizabeth Stark's superb blog.
In the last few weeks ( working on a first draft), I've been simply letting my characters figure their way out of problems. In other words I don't try to...
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Jul.12.2008
I am a cafe writer. I love my house, really I do, with the large sunny rooms, the refreshing garden and yes, a studio in the back. But there, I am loading or unloading laundry, looking up a quote by Farruhdin, wiping the counters, checking what's on TCM. No matter how I murmur, it's time to work, I...
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