There’s a quote that’s been attributed to many different people, but it goes: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” I don’t believe you need to be a suffering artist to create art, but it’s difficult to sort through a past as traumatic as mine to piece together something beautiful.
Ginelle Testa – 22 September 2024 Continue reading
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Sharing the more unpleasant times and behaviors were difficult for me, although that’s the very reason I committed to writing it all down. I didn’t want to sugar-coat the experience.
Cindy Eastman – 21 September 2024 Continue reading
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I like to write in absolute silence – or as close to that as I can get. That allows me to listen to what my mind is telling me to do next.
Carolyn J Nicholson – 19 Sept 2024 Continue reading
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As I cried, three elephants came up behind me from within a wooden corral. One elephant put its trunk on my shoulder, stunning me with its act of compassion. That’s where my story originated.
Susan R. Greenway – 17 September 2024 Continue reading
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And then right there, the character of Michelangelo D’Antoni emerged, almost full blown. He began to walk around our house from room to room, smiling and laughing a bit, and even accompanying my wife and I on our walks outside to catch a breath of fresh air. He seemed friendly and engaging, a decent fellow, with a lot on his mind. He also seemed to have a dark side. Once characters step inside your house, they almost become family and you begin to treat them as such.
Tom Maremaa – 15 September 2024 Continue reading
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I write the books I want to read and just hope other people will want to read them too. One of the aims behind The Owlbear and the Omens was to write a reverse harem where the arrangement was necessitated by politics rather than used as a tool for erotica.
Aengie Scevity – 13 September 2024 Continue reading
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I knew instinctively what to do, where to look in my journals, how to organize the story of my journey in a way that might help others find solace as well as providing them with some practical ideas for coping with altered circumstances.
Gwen Suesse – 10 September 2024 Continue reading
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The target readers for this collection were people over 65, nearing 65 and their children and friends. It was to begin a dialogue on what aging was about for one woman and could this be a kind of universal thinking?
Jane Seskin – 8 September 2024 Continue reading
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The book series spawned from my desire to write about the human condition – including a lack of motivation, the unwelcome feeling of loneliness, the desire to do one’s best, and the nature of quid pro quo.
Fish Nealman – 6 September 2024 Continue reading
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This is very much a figure skating book for figure skating readers. If you are a casual fan who tunes in to watch figure skating in the Olympics once every four years, this probably isn’t the book for you.
Ryan Stevens – 3 September 2024 Continue reading
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