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Backstory: Summer's over! Back at it!
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011. The kids are back in school and the red edged leaves of the sugar maples outside my office window are hinting at Fall. Alas! My summer vacation has come to an end. What better way to get back to the work of writing than with a book review, a little tease and an author interview? No better way I say! So here we go. Hope you enjoy it. Rebecca. They are called Mindbenders - men and women who know your every thought. They. While Greg’s body survived the war in. Thrust into a wor...
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Backstory: Dam: A Lesson in Fluid Dynamics
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Saturday, April 9, 2011. Dam: A Lesson in Fluid Dynamics. My inspiration is frozen like the ice building ever higher along the gutters under my house eaves. My words, my story, are stuck, entombed within the winter of my creativity. Ha. Now is the winter of my discontent…. Shakespeare really knew how to whine! 8220;I should have been an accountant,” I tell my husband. I roll my eyes in interruption and take another pull from my bottle. 8221; He emphasizes the word but. I might have hurt him. I am wrong&#...
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Backstory: November 2012
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012. Happy Thanksgiving from our garden of characters to yours. 65279;. It is chilly here today. Thanksgiving is on the horizon and Christmas is in queue behind. Brimfield is bustling to get ready for Turkey and stuffing, cranberries and pie and each table set across the small harbor town will be as unique as the people setting them. Mary spent most of October finding the perfect turkey and cranberry stuffing recipes. New England and most of the mid-Atlantic states. But enou...
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Backstory: Mirror, Mirror
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Friday, November 11, 2011. 65279; . Venus in Front of the Mirror. Peter Paul Rubens, 1613/1641. 65279;. I am haunted by mirrors. It took thirty-seven years, seventy-five pounds gained and lost and countless hours of angst (and therapy) to realize a simple truth: I do not look into the mirror at. Myself; I am looking for. What does this mean for me as a writer? In a chapter titled Finessing Fear. Of his book The Courage to Write. She said, “Jill is vain.”. Jill Robinson was in my head. Atching...
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Backstory: April 2011
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Saturday, April 9, 2011. It was a Sunday afternoon in spring when the phone rang. A friend, we’ll call her Sam, called exasperated and exhausted. 8220;Tell me,” she ground out, “does the urge to tell my son to swallow his spit after the 250. Request for a glass of water after I tucked him in make me a bad mom? I tried not to laugh. I failed. The whole thing sounded way too familiar. “I don’t think so,” I said “But, I have to admit I’m not the best person to ask. I thought a moment. 8221; I asked. Not onl...
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Backstory: Hero
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. I have a codependent relationship with writing manuals. Oh, they look innocent with their bright, glossy covers promising the world:. Write a Novel in a Weekend! The Keys to Writing the Next Great American Novel! Write a Damn Good, No Great,. New York Times , Award Winning Best Seller! I have ‘em all. I also have my therapist on speed dial. My many books sit there- smug and sure- on my shelf whispering “open me, if you dare.”. Oh, every day I dare. Is the name of the game. I hoped ...
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Backstory: October 2011
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Live to Write or Write to Live? The writing life is a strange and mercurial one. When the muse is talking there is no greater high. When that capricious lady clams up, well, life can be a bit sticky for a while. But like any compulsion, I can’t stop. So how do I live with the ups and downs that come with creating? The business of living any Life, a creative life included, comes down to balance. But is balance attainable? Is a work/life balance. 65279;. Like a teeter-totter, ...
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Backstory: September 2011
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011. The kids are back in school and the red edged leaves of the sugar maples outside my office window are hinting at Fall. Alas! My summer vacation has come to an end. What better way to get back to the work of writing than with a book review, a little tease and an author interview? No better way I say! So here we go. Hope you enjoy it. Rebecca. They are called Mindbenders - men and women who know your every thought. They. While Greg’s body survived the war in. Thrust into a wor...
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Backstory: Live to Write or Write to Live?
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Live to Write or Write to Live? The writing life is a strange and mercurial one. When the muse is talking there is no greater high. When that capricious lady clams up, well, life can be a bit sticky for a while. But like any compulsion, I can’t stop. So how do I live with the ups and downs that come with creating? The business of living any Life, a creative life included, comes down to balance. But is balance attainable? Is a work/life balance. 65279;. Like a teeter-totter, ...
