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How Can A Writer Make Their Stories More Entertaining?
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 Telling Stories: Part Two Webster’s Dictionary defines the word story primarily as a noun: an…
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Should You Write Your Autobiography?
AUTOBIOGRAPHY An autobiography is a book about a person written by that person. The word comes from the Greek, autos self, bios life, and graphein, to write. Autobiography is written with a timeline,…
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THE WORLD WOULD BE BORING WITHOUT MEMOIRS
Memoir has a long history. Humans have been traveling from place to place to tell stories since the introduction of language. Writing about the self is a method of understanding the meaning of…
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Goodreads asked Kay Castaneda Interview Question 1
How do you deal with writer’s block? Kay Castaneda I don’t really have writer’s block unless it would be about something I don’t like. If I was assigned a job to write…
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I Carry My Books
I carry my books with me everywhere I go, I leave, I return, I follow where the road takes me. I ignore the signs. I write my own…
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WHAT DOES A WRITER DO?
Part One: TELL STORIES I began writing this blog post because someone asked me a very rude question. The subject itself wasn’t the problem; the person’s tone of voice and the look on…
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Going places with books
Where did you go today? I traveled far to visit with an old woman who told me a tale of when she lived behind a barbed-wire fence. The fence was rusty and sticky…
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The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
