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Tag Archives: books
How to Write a Novel
Full disclosure: I did not come up with these excellent tips on how to write (or fail to write) a novel. I found this on the interwebs in the Before Times and rediscovered it last night while flipping through an … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged books, creativity, imagination, literature, NaNoWriMo, writers
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Inspiration
“I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” — Peter De Vries “To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is … Continue reading
Contemplating Simplicity and Stuff
Today, standing in the doorway, basking in the early morning sunlight, I was thinking about my stuff. I love my stuff, but would like to have a lot less of it. I am so drawn to books about simplifying one’s … Continue reading
Ask Yourself
“Whenever you find yourself in a difficult situation, ask yourself, how would Fred Astaire handle this?” — Mary, in Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I’ve been interested in Jeanette Winterson ever since reading Written on the Body. She’s a compelling writer, and in that novel I was swept away to a place where readers long to go — an interior landscape where all is … Continue reading
Tribute to a Beloved Poet
This 13th day of January will mark fourteen years since my friend Elizabeth Carlson gave up her last breath. She was a poet, writer, teacher and counselor, a musician and a dancer, a wife, mother, and grandmother, and one of … Continue reading
Posted in Writers
Tagged books, Collected Poems, Elizabeth Avakian, Elizabeth Carlson, poetry, Sonoma State University, Susan Seddon Boulet, time, writers
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In Praise of Libraries
On the first Friday of October, I drove to Eugene on a bright autumn afternoon and parked my car in the garage beneath the Eugene Public Library. I had seen it only once before, and this was my day to … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Art Deco, books, Corvallis Library, Eugene, Kesey Square, librarians, libraries, Library of Congress
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